Dear scanners of surfaces,

we’re happy to announce that we now have stable support for RPLidar devices by Slamtec.

“SLAMTEC’s core R&D team is experienced in the development and application of robot autonomous localization and navigation solution as well as related core sensors.”

…and while you might not build robots, those sensors can help you turn any flat surface into a multitouch canvas with just a few clicks!

Based on a third-party C# implementation of their RPLidar SDK we’ve created the VL.Devices.RPLidar package, implementing a node-set for you to quickly access the data of one or multiple supported models.

As you can see in the help patch above there is really not much to it: You simply get a spread of measured points out of the device. Combine those with NuGets VL.DBSCAN and VL.TrackObjects and you have all the tools to fine tweak your multitouch surface…

Credits

Development of this library was kicked off through a priority support inquiry by Emanuele Foti.

If you have a request for custom development, don’t hesitate to get in touch!