Color sensor question

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Hi guys,

Just received from amazon: Arduino Uno Ultimate Starter Kit -- Includes 72 page Instruction Book
for my kid.

We want to do the color sensor project and my guess is that the kit didn't come with the color sensor. Which color sensor will be compatible with the Arduino uno R3? We are not very knowledgeable about electronics but programming is not an issue for us at all. We just want to learn basic things.

I will appreciate very much if some one can tell me which color sensor from amazon will be compatible with the Arduino uno R3.

Thanks in advance.

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The problem here is that as we have not got access to this instruction book then we have no idea as to what the colour sensor project actually consists of. Therefore we can't tell if you have the parts in your kit already.

There are many ways to sens colour, from a simple light sensor with a filter over it to a dedicated colour sensor.

There are many boards with colour sensors on them, this is just one:-

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Thank you, I will take a look at it.

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It is too much asking if some one can tell me if this will work with my ARDUINO uno R3 ATMEGA328

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ZITRADES Color Sensor Color Recognition Module TCS230/TCS3200 For Arduino UNO MEGA R3 Mega2560 Duemilanove Nano Robot BY ZITRADES

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Hi cedjr3,
I'd say it works with any Arduino, not sure how! But I think the 4 LEDs would provide white light and the certral sensor gives you the colour of the light in terms of RGB...

I have just Googled and found this is available from many supplier and under different names, this is unsful:

TCS3200 Color Sensor is a complete color detector, including a TAOS TCS3200 RGB sensor chip and 4 white LEDs. The TCS3200 can detect and measure a nearly limitless range of visible colors. Applications include test strip reading, sorting by color, ambient light sensing and calibration, and color matching, to name just a few.
The TCS3200 has an array of photodetectors, each with either a red, green, or blue filter, or no filter (clear). The filters of each color are distributed evenly throughout the array to eliminate location bias among the colors. Internal to the device is an oscillator which produces a square-wave output whose frequency is proportional to the intensity of the chosen color.

Take a look at this link for more very useful details: TCS3200_Color_Sensor_(SKU_SEN0101)-DFRobot

Hope it helps.
Regards

Mel.

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Thank you, let me order it.

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The color sensor will work with the Arduino. I have a library in my code repository (link below) for the sensor that includes documentation on how it works and how to calibrate the sensor that you may find useful.