Neato XV-11 Open LiDAR Project, Hack It and Get it For Free! | RobotShop Community

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William Cox from RobotBox created the Open Lidar Project. Basically he offers a 400$ bounty to the first person who is able to get useful data from the Neato XV-11 LiDAR and open his procedure and code.

This initiative is inspired by a similar bounty offered by Adafruit to the first to hack the K

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/neato-xv-11-open-lidar-project-hack-it-and-get-it-for-free
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Hi,
I’m interested in this challenge. I live in Montreal. I saw your disassembly, do you have a spare unit to borrow/sell (the Revo alone). When reading the paper published by the Neato guys they mention a short-range radio-frequency unit since they only use a 2-path slipring. Is this still in use in the production version? Can you tell what the RF chip (protocol) is?

thanks

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The production unit uses a four channel slip ring (if my memory is correct) and does not require RF (unfortunately for hackers). Nevertheless, this should be easy to hack, since the four lines are Power, GND, RX and TX.

The Neato is in Stock and you could either pick it up in-store or have it delivered for free.

Happy hacking!