As launched by our friend William Cox, the Open LiDAR Project aims to reward the first to be able to successfully hack the Neato XV-11 LiDAR.

More precisely, the first person to get useful readings out of the Neato XV-11 LiDAR and published his code and procedure under an open license, will get a 400$ cash bounty and a full refund for the Neato XV-11 cost if it was bought at RobotShop. In In total, you could potentially win a bounty of 800$!

In order to hack the Neato XV-11, a good start point would be the thorough disassembly guide below:

We are confident that the GoRobotics community will be able to successfully hack the XV-11 in no time!.

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