Slamtec's RPLidar scanner is used in robotics, SLAM and solid modelling applications. It's a small, light and cheap Lidar solution - versions are available for about $80.
Slamtec publish what they describe as an SDK. Strictly it's just a C++ library of control methods and a few example applications. I've written a wrapper for the C++ library that allows you to control the scanner from a Go program. You can find that here: https://github.com/goblimey/rplidar_sdk_go. Slamtec's C++ library is open source and is implemented for Windows, Mac and Linux systems. I've only tested it under Linux so far. Unfortunately, the Windows build requires a particular version of Visual Studio, which was a blocker for me. I used cgo to call the C++ methods from Go. There is a huge range of C and C++ libraries out there, and cgo potentially opens up access to them. However, the Slamtec library is not directly compatible with cgo and I had to jump through a few hoops to use it. I describe them in the project README. Anybody planning a similar project may get some useful advice there. Enjoy! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
