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- From: kbasye@black.clarku.edu (Ken Basye)
- Subject: Cheap color sensor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.194916.8558@black.clarku.edu>
- Organization: Clark University (Worcester, MA)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:49:16 GMT
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- I've been wondering lately about how one might build a very simple and
- cheap color sensor. I have in mind something that would be fairly
- reliable in providing 3 or perhaps even 4 bits of discrimination and
- which would be fairly reliable given good input, e.g., having a
- well-lit piece of colored construction paper put in front.
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- A photoresistor alone might seem to be enough, given that different
- pieces of paper will reflect different amounts of light. So as a
- control, imagine that the sheets have been chosen so that a single
- photoresistor gets close to the same reading for each sheet, yet they
- are easily distinguished by color.
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- My first thought was to use three photoresistors with R, G and B
- filters (just cellophane, perhaps). Or perhaps there are tuned
- versions that would give the same effect. Better yet, a single
- tunable photoresistor could be used with 3 consecutive readings.
- Are there cheap ways to measure dominant frequency directly? Etc...
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- kbasye@black.clarku.edu
- Ken Basye
- Dept. of Math and CS
- Clark University
- 950 Main St.
- Worcester, MA 01610
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