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If you're ok with doing it in python, you can take a look at my code here:

http://code.google.com/p/knex-ros/source/browse/nodes/range_to_laser.py

This node controls an IR range finder on a servo and makes a laser scan out of the data. It's only about 150 lines of code, the laser scan stuff starts at line 59.

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