In this video I show how you can easily add a LIDAR in to your robotics project, the rplidar C1 cost me around AUD$100 and took about 30 minutes to get integrated. There are several libraries that you can use and I'll talk about the issues I encountered. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:29 - Quick look at the RPLIDAR C1 02:07 - Package 1 - rplidar-ros 03:55 - Package 2 - sllidar-ros2 06:33 - Create a lidar node 11:20 - Outro As always, my code is freely available here: If this video helped you, please consider leaving a comment or a like, it doesn't cost you anything and it helps me get noticed in the Youtube algorithm