I was just reading through the newsletter that was posted this morning, and came across some interesting SMS-1 news that seemed worthy of some special attention. For one thing, Outlaw posted an Outlaw\'s Guide to the SMS-1 that looks pretty cool. It looks to be a very handy partner to the original manual (which was pretty comprehensive but not always the easiest to navigate). Plus the format should give Douglas Adams fans a grin.

I also noticed that Velodyne has released a firmware update (v2.12) for the SMS-1. It's available from Outlaw's SMS-1 page , but it's also on Velodyne\'s site . I don't know that I'll install it since the only thing it appears to do is modify the subsonic filter to allow it to be set as low as 5Hz (instead of the 15Hz lower limit on the original v2.10 firmware), but it deserves mentioning.