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This breakout is chock full o' sensors! Add basic gesture sensing, RGB color sensing, proximity
sensing, or ambient light sensing to your project with the Adafruit APDS9960 Proximity, Light,
RGB and Gesture Sensor. When connected to your microcontroller (running our library code) it
can detect simple gestures (left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up are currently
supported), return the amount of red, blue, green, and clear light, or return how close an object
is to the front of the sensor. This device uses an I2C interface so it's easy to wire up and use.
The APDS9960 from Avago Technologies has an integrated IR LED and driver, along with four
directional photodiodes that sense reflected IR energy from the LED. It's proximity detection
feature allows it to measure the distance an object is from the front of the sensor (up to a few
centimeters) with 8 bit resolution.
Since there are four IR sensors, you can measure the changes in light reflectance at each of the
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cardinal locations over time and turn those changes into gestures. Our interface library can
detect directional gestures (left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up), but in theory more
complicated gestures like zig-zag, clockwise or counterclockwise circle, near to far, etc. could
also be detected with additional code.
The APDS9960 has a configurable interrupt that can fire when a certain proximity threshold is
broken, or when a color sensor breaks a certain threshold.
For your convenience we've pick-and-placed the sensor on a PCB with a 3.3V regulator and
some level shifting so it can be easily used with your favorite 3.3V
or
5V microcontroller.
We've also prepared a guide and software library to get you up and running in Arduino IDE
with just a few lines of code!
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Product Dimensions: 17.8mm x 17.8mm x 3.2mm / 0.7" x 0.7" x 0.1"
Product Weight: 1.3g / 0.0oz
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