Howdy folks,
I got inspired by Adafruit's Kinect Hacking bounty and got to thinking. What if I sponsored a hacking project myself? So, I got to thinking and decided we really needed to get the Neato Robotics XV-11 scanning lidar system hacked and useful to robot builders. So, I'm offering up $401 ($201 from me,, $100 from RobotNV, and Trossen Robotics is putting in another $100 !) to the first person that documents the hacking and releases open source drivers for using the rangefinder!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/blog/show/the-open-lidar-project-hack-the-neato-xv-11-lidar-for-a-400-bounty