Thanks for looking at the page.
I’ll go and fire up a cal and see what it does because I don’t actually know what the Micro Lidar LEDs do. I suspect they are just normal incoherent LED’s and therefore would be useless for TOF, but I’m happy to look, sometimes I am wrong.
But since I work on X1plus, I do know what the lidar camera does. It’s just a normal camera that captures normal images, we’ve got dumps of them. In fact when you upload a log to Bambu it includes images from that camera.
Do you have any other candidate aperture you’d like me to look at? It could be very small since it only needs to have an APD behind it, but I would still expect a lens of some sort.
We use tiny, integrated SMD TOF sensors in my product, but they wouldn’t work in this application, they would just tell you the distance to the build plate, it couldn’t actually discern any filament (except in bulk).