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SENSORS / PROXIMITY / ADAFRUIT APDS9960 PROXIMITY, LIGHT, RGB, AND GESTURE SENSOR
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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