sensors

[studentcheese]

hello all.
are there any good sensors that detect distance?
for instance on a robot or anything else? please do let me know.
thank you :)

[Mark]

Sonar, Sharp Infrared range finders.

There are loads on various websites:

www.mansky.co.uk
www.active-robots.co.uk
etc etc

[Kevin Berry]

Parallax's PING sensors are well thought of, and they have a LOT of support, sample code, etc. One of my favorite vendors. A lot of people use the sharp IR sensors, like the previous post mentioned.