Laser trackers are one of the most important devices, especially in the heavy industrial sectors. Most of the companies use the laser trackers to track down the missing or broken parts of the goods. It’s to make sure that the quality of the products are always on the top!

If you thought that it’s very hard to develop a laser tracker, then you have to keeping read on the article, as we’re going to show you the easiest way to DIY a high tech laser tracker, even at your home’s laboratory.

Before you start with the project, you should know that the main objective of the laser tracker is to lock onto and track a laser pointer or small light source, by using the Altera DE2 board. In this case, you can use a Terasic (Note: Terasic has nothing to do with Triassic, which is one of the ancient geologic periods, right after the Jurassic) 1.3 Mega Pixel CMOS camera to capture continuous streaming picture.

After that, you can convert the captured images into black and white, and then stored them into SDRAM. The SDRAM is needed, as it will be used as the VGA buffer before the image is displaying on the VGA display!