Range Finder on Lloyd Rochester's Geek Bloghttps://lloydroc.github.io/tags/range-finder/Recent content in Range Finder on Lloyd Rochester's Geek BlogHugoenCopyright © 2025, Lloyd Rochester.Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000TF Mini Plus Unix Agent for the Raspberry Pihttps://lloydroc.github.io/post/hardware/tf-mini-lidar-unix-agent/Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://lloydroc.github.io/post/hardware/tf-mini-lidar-unix-agent/<h1 id="hahahugoshortcode71s0hbhb">TF Mini Plus Unix Agent for the Raspberry Pi</h1> <p>In this post we will create a Unix agent for the TF Mini+ LiDAR Range Finder. We&rsquo;ll run the agent on a Raspberry Pi B+ as a daemon. This agent will send out UDP datagrams with each LiDAR Reading. Also, we can use the <code>tfmini</code> program as a command line tool to read from the LiDAR and change the configuration. Overall, I&rsquo;ve noticed the TF Mini+ is quite accurate and snappy.</p>