Hackaday

Playing Rock, Paper Scissors With A Time Of Flight Sensor

You can do all kinds of wonderful things with cameras and image recognition. However, sometimes spatial data is useful, too. As [madmcu] demonstrates, you can use depth data from a time-of-flight ...
Hackaday

time of flight

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 ...
Electronic Specifier

Rutronik adds ams Osram’s long-range dToF sensor to bolster 3D-sensing portfolio

The TMF8829, now available via Rutronik ’s e-commerce platform, offers a measurement range of up to 11 metres and an 80° diagonal field of view in a 4:3 format. The module integrates a VCSEL emitter, ...
Business Wire

Samsung Unveils Two New ISOCELL Vizion Sensors Tailored for Robotics and XR Applications

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today introduced two new ISOCELL Vizion sensors — a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor ...
Nature

CMOS Image Sensors and Time-of-Flight Technology

CMOS image sensors have become a cornerstone of modern imaging, leveraging the advantages of low power consumption, high speed, and scalability inherent in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor ...
Machine Design

Sensor Sense: Time-of-flight sensing

Laser distance or displacement sensors use timeof-flight sensing to handle the positioning monitoring process. Time of flight (TOF) measures the time needed for a burst of laser light to travel from ...
Automation World

Precise Time-of-flight Sensors

The S80 Time-of-Flight Class 2 laser distance sensor features the ability to detect objects as small as 0.4mm. Time-of-Flight technology is based on the measurement of the time between the emission ...
Automation World

Teledyne e2v introduces industry’s first 1.3MP Time-of-Flight sensor

Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE: TDY] company and global innovator of imaging solutions, announces its new Bora™ Time-of-Flight CMOS image sensor, tailored for 3D detection and distance ...
Electronic Design

ToF Sensors for PC Privacy Confirm Even AI Needs Analog Sensors

The various ways your PC-screen “privacy” can be compromised. How a sensitive time-of-flight (ToF) transducer can be a critical privacy (and power-saving) building block. The many circumstances for ...
Electronic Design

Range-Detection Technologies Target Consumer and Commercial Apps

Why range-sensing applications are becoming more common. What’s the difference between radar and optical sensing? Why these sensors are better than using passive-infrared (PIR) technology. Anyone ...
EDN

Time-to-digital conversion for space applications

A time-to-digital converter (TDC) is like a stopwatch measuring the elapsed interval between two events with picosecond precision, converting this into a digital value for post-processing. Many space ...