🤓 Laser triangulation for dummies...

💥 A laser projects a beam or line onto a target, and a sensor captures the reflection

📐 By measuring the angle of the reflected light, the system calculates the exacdistance to the object using trigonometry

🔬 This can be used for 3D scanning, quality control, and robotics

🌐 These short videos that I make for the Larry Laser YouTube/Instagram/TikTok channels are basic... intentionally

🎇 There's obviously a lot more nuance to laser triangulation and the other topics covered there, but my hope is that these videos are the foot in the door that help get someone new interested in optics at STEM

✨ Or that at least they help someone in optics finally explain what they do to their friends and family!


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