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- From: bleck@aztec.ai.mit.edu (Olaf Bleck)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Cheap color sensor
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 02:25:16 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- Sender: bleck@aztec (Olaf Bleck)
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- In article <1993Jan8.194916.8558@black.clarku.edu>, kbasye@black.clarku.edu (Ken Basye) writes:
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- |> I've been wondering lately about how one might build a very simple and
- |> cheap color sensor.
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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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- Check out a company called Hamamatsu. They make a sensor just like this.
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- It's a rectangular photoresistor about 3x8mm or so in size, with a red,
- green, and blue field on it. The sensor has two differential signals coming
- out, and one we had around here seemed to work pretty well. Don't know the
- price, but I don't think it would be out of this world.
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- BTW,they make a bunch of other high quality sensors dealing mostly with
- optoelectronics.
-
- -Olaf
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