i believe the color sensors are TCS230's with the four white LED to light up the item I want to detect the color of which I understand output is a variable frequency. For the purpose of my game I would need only to identify what range each of the three colored balls falls in. When that range is detected have the computer recognize the frequency range and which sensor is triggered. This will identify which hole the ball went through and each hole will be pre-assigned a points value. The computer will add the points to whichever of the three colors based on what frequency the sensor output.
using Red, Blue, and Green balls which are fired at the target holes and proceed through holes with a color sensor attached to detect which color ball came through the hole and tell the computer which hole it went through.
Would it make more sense to use a simple counter sensor on each hole to detect the ball going through and then a color sensor in the return shoot detecting what color the ball was?