DESCRIPTION
Add basic gesture sensing, RGB color sensing, proximity sensing, or ambient light sensing to your project with the APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor. Connect it to your microcontroller to detect simple gestures (left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up are currently supported), return the amount of red, blue, green, and clear light, or return how close an object is to the front of the sensor. This device uses an I2C interface so it's easy to wire up and use.
The APDS9960 from Avago Technologies has an integrated IR LED and driver, along with four directional photodiodes that sense reflected IR energy from the LED. Its proximity detection feature allows it to measure the distance an object is from the front of the sensor (up to a few centimeters) with 8-bit resolution.
Since there are four IR sensors, you can measure the changes in light reflectance at each of the cardinal locations over time and turn those changes into gestures. You can detect directional gestures (left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up), but in theory more complicated gestures like zig-zag, clockwise or counterclockwise circle, near to far, etc. could also be detected with additional code.
The APDS9960 has a configurable interrupt that can fire when a certain proximity threshold is broken, or when a color sensor breaks a certain threshold and has a detection range of 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm).
For your convenience, we have broken out the following pins: VL (optional power to IR LED), GND (Ground), VCC (power to APDS-9960 sensor), SDA (I2C data), SCL (I2C clock), and INT (interrupt).
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- Operating Voltage: 3.3V
- Protocol: I2C
- Range: Up to 20cm
- Dimensions: 20mm x 15.3mm
SHIPPING LIST
- 1x APDS9960 Proximity, Light, RGB, and Gesture Sensor Soldered