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ActionAdventureTwins on MSN1d
150-Foot-Deep Hole Leads to Secret River Cave
What started as a narrow hole quickly turned into the adventure of a lifetime. We made a 150-foot descent into the earth, ...
XDA Developers on MSN7d
Someone made a LiDAR scanner with a Raspberry Pi, and it looks awesome
The DIY PiLiDAR scanner project uses a Raspberry Pi for LiDAR mapping. LiDAR scans the surroundings by firing lasers to ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram15d
Cave guide enters unknown passage for first time — and makes ancient discovery
Pavlova is a Russian speleologist, or a scientist studying caves, and she was on a mission to map caves in the region. But, she needed the help of a local who knew the rocky caverns inside and out.
IEEE15d
Local Collision Avoidance for Unmanned Surface Vehicles Based on an End-to-End Planner With a LiDAR Beam Map
A novel observation modality, the “beam map”, is designed to accurately perceive obstacles in all directions, mimicking the functionality of an onboard LiDAR system. To further refine collision ...
eLife28d
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Rising Star cave system map. The relative locations of current entrances and underground ... The floor visualization is derived from LIDAR and photogrammetric survey. Differences in color in this ...