And now for something different comes this small rangefinder from Scitech WA. It's a neat project that rotates an ultrasonic distance sensor across a 180-degree sweep, and displays the result on a small colour OLED display.
This has many uses, from simply being a lot of fun to experiment with it also gives you the framework for a more advance object-detection system for an autonomous robot or artificial-intelligence project.
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