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Pros & Cons
Pros
The eye sensor works perfectly. It gives the rover that quality of having eyes to make it more animal like.
Cons
A quick look at the back of these is a clue as to why they're garbage. I have a working hcsr04 i was testing with that worked fine, and when i swapped each one of these in they didn't work.
Highlights
Quality
Plus i love the fact that it gives my rover that quality of having eyes to make it a little more animal like.
Looking online there were many comments about the poor quality of the cheap modules.
I've only used one of the two, with the other one waiting for another project.
You can't use an ultrasonic sensor for precision distance measurement, but with the new ping library you can do some useful thi... Read More
Packaging/appearance
A little instruction or assistance in the packaging would be nice, but for the price you can't really complain.
Competitiveness
These worked perfectly for a robot competition project i did in grand valley 2015-16 year.
I found no duds in this sunfounder brand.
It would have won us the competition had we not messed with our robot in the last few minutes before the competiton!
Working as described, distance measured between 2cm and 480cm.
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- This product had a total of 215 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 18 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
These are not plug and play you need to know how to code
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But hey theyre cheap and there is bound to be interference and what not if youre using this type of range finding technology
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dont forget your voltage divider on the return pin to gpio
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Inexpensive work well enough but very fickle
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sometimes their are some connection errors but it may be human error
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I do not have proper connection pins for these guys and cant always tell if they are properly wired
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As for the accuracy it seems to only be slightly less accurate then the parallax ping ultrasonic range sensor
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Cheaper versions available at rates of 10 from china
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