Well, [David] decided to build a room scanner with his Garmin LIDAR Lite, and it’s a wonderful sight to behold. The scanner consists of a rotating platform, which is driven by a stepper motor.

The basic idea of [Patrick]’s project is to take the PulsedLight LIDAR-Lite module, add a motor and processing board, and sell a complete unit that will output 360° of distance data to a robot ...