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1 HN user recommended this in 2017, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
You'd think so, but there are a lot of things that have a big commercial market but are basically non-existent in the consumer space unless you're willing to rip them out of commercial products. As just one example, you can buy one 7" HDMI touchscreen (just the screen) for $100 shipped [1] or for the same money you can buy two Amazon Fire tablets with the same size screen but twice the resolution, plus it has a full mobile SOC with a quad core processor and a camera and I mean it's a full tablet. Not just the screen. And it's half the price.
Even if Amazon is losing money on each Fire sold, I can't imagine they're losing that much. They're getting those screens for a hell of a lot cheaper than I can, and better quality too. I imagine LCD touchscreens have a far bigger consumer demand than LIDAR sensors ever will, so the dream of cheap LIDAR sensors from Sparkfun will forever remain a dream. Grabbing one from a junk yard will be the better option.
[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/2407
[2] https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Tablet-Alexa-Display-Black/dp...