Adafruit RGB Color Sensor with IR filter and White LED TCS

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Your electronics can now see in dazzling color with this lovely color light sensor. We found the best color sensor on the market, the TCS34725, which has RGB and clear light sensing elements. An IR blocking filter, integrated on-chip and localized to the color sensing photodiodes, minimizes the IR spectral component of the incoming light and allows color measurements to be made accurately. The filter means you'll get much truer color than most sensors, since humans don't see IR. The sensor also has an incredible 3,800,000:1 dynamic range with adjustable integration time and gain, making it suitable for use behind darkened glass.

We add supporting circuitry as well, such as a 3.3V regulator so you can power the breakout with 3-5VDC safely and level shifting for the I2C pins so they can be used with 3.3V or 5V logic. Finally, we specified a nice neutral 4150K temperature LED with a MOSFET driver onboard to illuminate what you're trying to sense. The LED can be easily turned on or off by any logic level output.

Connect to any microcontroller with I2C and our example code will quickly get you going with 4 channel readings. We include some example code to detect light lux and temperature that we snagged from the evaluation board software.

A detailed tutorial is available, and you can follow our tutorial to install. Wire up the sensor by connecting VDD to 3-5VDC, Ground to common ground, SCL to I2C Clock, and SDA to I2C Data on your Arduino. Restart the IDE, select the example sketch, and start putting all your favorite fruit next to the sensor element!.

Key specifications

Item number
5998614

General information

Manufacturer
Adafruit
Category
Diode
Manufacturer no.
ada-1334
Release date
5.8.2015

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Package dimensions

Length
8 cm
Width
7 cm
Height
0.20 cm
Weight
3 g

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