0.3-12m Indoors Lidar Range Finder Sensor Module, TFmini Single-Point Micro Ranging Module, Lidar Detectors with Cable for Arduino Raspberry Pi Pixhawk Drone

If you want good data for indoor usage, this will do the trick. It works exactly as advertised with the range being from 0.3m to 12m. However, once you take it outdoors, the sensor does not perform nearly as well. The max range lowered to 6m to 7m and failed to detect many objects as the signal strength became really low. I am using this with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. Overall, good sensor for the price.

We used this to detect the height of our arm mechanism - worked great! Our team actually won a Control award. Required a UART -> USB adapter to work with the RoboRio - but it was easy to program.

Fr the money, this rivals other ranging devices, but it is NOT laser. Therefore no LIDAR. But it works beautifully. Be user to run the signals at 3.3v!