Geeky Gadgets

New VL53L0X Time Of Flight Distance Sensor Now Available From Adafruit

Adafruit has this week announced the arrival of the new VL53L0X Time of Flight Distance Sensor which is now available to purchase directly from their online store priced at $14.95. The new VL53L0X ...
Automation World

Balluff Adds Time of Flight Distance Sensor to 23K Family

Expanding the popular family of 23K photoelectric sensors with measurement. For factory automation applications from packaging to automotive assembly, Balluff's newest distance sensor utilizes time of ...
Business Wire

Heptagon Announces World’s First 5m Time-of-Flight 3DRanger™ Sensor

ELISA 3DRanger™ Sets New Standard with 5 Meter Distance Ranging, SmudgeSense™ and 2-in-1 Proximity Mode, for Distance Ranging and IoT Applications SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heptagon today ...
Machine Design

Sensor Sense: Time-of-flight sensing

Automated inventory storage-andretrieval systems rely on error-free position sensing of overhead cranes and vertical lifts. Laser distance or displacement sensors use timeof-flight sensing to handle ...
Business Wire

ams’ TMF8701 True Direct Time-of-Flight (ToF) Sensor Wins “Best of Sensors Innovation” and the Company Scores “Best Engineering Team” at Sensors Expo 2019

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ams (SIX:AMS), a leading worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announced it was awarded two highly coveted awards at Sensors Expo: the Best of ...
Hackaday

distance sensor

Every robotics project out there, it seems, needs a way to detect if it’s smashing into a wall repeatedly, acting like the brainless automaton it actually is. The Roomba has wall sensors, just about ...
Electronics Weekly

Optical time-of-flight sensor covers 48 x 32 pixels and 1cm to 11m

Osram has created an optical time-of-flight sensor with a 48 x 32 pixel receiving array that builds up a 1,536 point depth map as wide as 80° and at ranges from 10mm to 11m. “It is designed to detect ...
Hackaday

Time of Flight Sensor

If you are blind or your vision is impaired, moving around in a new space can be a harrowing experience. A cane helps, but only samples one point at a time, and can’t help that much above a certain ...
EDN

MEMS ultrasonic time-of-flight innovation: sensors advance user experiences

I recently met Dr. Dave Horsley, CTO and co-founder of Chirp Microsystems. This is a company that was created in 2013 after incubating with Skydeck at Berkeley and the government-based SBIR program.
Gizmodo

The Next iPhone Might Have a Time-of-Flight Sensor—but What the Heck Is That?

As if you didn’t have enough phone specs to consider when choosing a new phone, here comes another one: Smartphone cameras are now being augmented with what’s called a time-of-flight or TOF sensor, as ...
9to5Mac

iOS 14 code shows only iPhone 12 Pro will gain time-of-flight sensor for generating 3D models of environments

9to5Mac has already confirmed Apple is working on a new iPad Pro with a time-of-flight sensor. We have now discovered evidence based on the iOS 14 code that corroborates the existence of new iPhones ...