Building a position sensor for the 1st generation of HTC Vive's Lighthouse tracking system.

This is a work in progress. For a starting point, see the Logic Analyzer notebook.

This repo uses Git LFS for tracking large files such as images and signal waveform logs (CSV). To clone it, use a regular git clone when Git LFS is installed:

$ git clone git@github.com:sunsided/lighthouse.git

• docs/ contains papers, datasheets and other documents,
• fritzing/ contains Fritzing schematics for the sensor board
• measurements/ contains sensor measurements from both a Saleae Logic analyzer and a Rigol DS1104Z scope
• simulation/ contains Jupyter Notebooks for working out the details

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• Alan Yates: Why Valve's Lightouse can't work

• DIY Position Tracking using HTC Vive's Lighthouse (the sensor board)
• Unofficial Documentation for the Lighthouse Tracking System

• IR Receiver mount for 3x BPV22NF (the diode holder used on the sensor board)

• HTC Vive Lighthouse Chaperone tracking system Explained
• The Secret Prototypes of Valve's VR Lab