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Most commercial laser range finders are Class 1 lasers. Always be careful and take adequate precautions when using lasers to avoid damage to your eyes or the eyes of others. Most are equipped with a serial interface to allow use with other devices. It is difficult to integrate them into an existing system because most systems do not provide a serial interface capable of operating at the unusual baudrate of 500 kBd.

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There was something I saw online the other day… First they came for our levels and now it’s our tape measures. Like some invasion of little red dots, lasers are being incorporated more and more into today’s job sites. While gravity works against tape measures, the laser travels point to point, resulting in more accurate measurements and less aggravation when trying to measure a great room or up multiple stories. Think of a reference point button which allows users to choose where they would like their reference point to begin; at the top of the tool or at the bottom. It would be a good idea to make sure the tape measure you use to transfer the results of the rangefinder measures before starting work. Point and shoot and you have your distance. The only negative point that I discovered that the measure in feet and fractions of an inch are stored in memory, then again to decimal then forcing me to convert the number back into fractions.

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