Welcome!
In this video I introduce the world's coolest sensor: LiDARs. You will learn about its working principle, application, how to write a program to communicate with one, and much more!
1:00 Introduction
1:47 LiDAR Working principle
3:29 Types of Mechanical LiDARs
4:22 Solid State LiDARs
5:22 Costs
6:06 Applications
7:21 Start developing a LiDAR driver
8:15 RPLidar SDK
10:27 Using our forked SDK
11:18 Main program
12:12 Dev container cross build
12:36 Deployment
15:26 Installing in target machine
16:56 Architecture of the driver
18:11 Interfacing
20:25 Simulating the LiDAR
24:31 Final program
26:24 Mindset
27:24 Running it!
29:45 Outro
LiDAR driver: https://github.com/Marcus-Forte/rplidar_publisher_app
gRPC openGL server: https://github.com/Marcus-Forte/learning-opengl
Custom Linux: https://github.com/Marcus-Forte/yocto-raspi