What was the most exciting sensor that you tried?

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I am looking to start some new project and would like some ideas for sensors that are a bit out of ordinary?

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This belongs in Bar Sport, not here.

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Grumpy... ;D but true

anyway, hmm, geiger counters? MQ3 alcohol gas sensors?

Not sure what you'd class as out of the ordinary.

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anal probe.

I'm sorry, couldn't resist.... :smiley:

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anal probe.

That classed as a sensor?

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I would use the colour sensor, there are lots of projects you could do with that:-
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1239955755

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thanks Mike,

I've seen somewhere an interesting sensor, like sort of temperature sensor, but with 5 pixels, so it can give you an image of the temperature distribution. If I put it on a servo I can scan around and form an image of the environment.

But can't find where I've seen it.

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but with 5 pixels, so it can give you an image of the temperature

Thermal mapping is rather tricky an I wouldn't expect you to be able to get that in a simple sensor. Don't mix up temperature sensors with IR imaging these are separate things. Most image sensors that work at IR only do so at near IR - that is IR that is near viable light and so don't actually show much in the way of temperature information for things below about 800oC

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A forum member has done this:
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1253898939