and from reading up on it, it appears to me that this would make a good front end for a 3d scanner. 2 stepper motors, 1 for rotate and 1 for a z access would enable me to obtain the object surface detail in incremental layers up z based on stop and read around 360 degrees of rotation. I believe I read the accuracy to be 1mm.
If I put this into and Arduino, could I capture and save the readings per layer?
This is something that I have wanted to build for a very long time. I’m pretty sure I can handle the Arduino code.
Yes, that should work. That being said, you will most likely not get any surface details out of this sensor.
From the full description of the RB-Plx-257, you will noticed it specifies having an accuracy error < 5%, with an average of 3%.
Since the range is 15-122 cm, that would place the error at no more than [0.75, 6.10] cm , typically [0.45, 3.66] cm, which is way more than 1 mm.
Yes, you can. But, you may want to use external storage due to the amount of data such a setup would produce. This can take many forms, such as EEPROM shield, SD card adaoter etc or even sending it to a computer through the USB connector.
