SparkFun (PID 14786 TFMini - Micro LiDAR Module (Qwiic)

hey there everybody it's over here and today we're going to look at what bats dolphins and the new garmin lidar light v4 led with quick have in common they can all create perceptual maps of their surroundings without the human eyesight that we're accustomed to and how do they do that they use echolocation let's take the common use case of bats for example most bats are nocturnal which means that they fly and hunt for their food during night time when they can't use their eyes to see so in order to find exactly where their food is they send out a sound into the environment and calculate how long it takes for the echo to come back to them an insect on the wall will have a shorter distance for the sound of travel than the wall itself that's how sensitive echolocation is the new garmin lidar light v4 led with kwik works practically the same way but instead of using sound it sends pulses of