I went to have some photocopies made and the lady running the copier/library was telling how hi-tech her new copier was and that it could tell which paper bin had what color paper and she was very obviously impressed by that feature. So I thought I’d give it a go and see just how hi-tech that was, and as it turns out its rather trivial with Gadgeteer.
Justin’s seven-segment LEDs were just the ticket when I could configure them to have as many digits as I needed and in the colors I needed (Red, Green, Blue), which makes the readings obvious as to what color they are.
The objective is one a month for the year, so I’m ahead of schedule, but I might have some other work cutting into my posting projects time coming up, so I’ll have to see what I can do.
I’m also watching to see which projects seem to get the most attention so I can tune future projects accordingly, so I’m watching my Palm Monitor rather closely as I was rather happy with the range of interfaces it has, from email to twitter and all points in between, I’m was hoping that there is something for everyone in there. Also waiting to see what Gus’s next load of modules will be and what the next software release holds. I’m hoping to do something with my FEZtive kit as I think that would be a good one to post.
I also promised a few presentations coming up as well, so spare time is going to be a little hard to find.
Hi Duke, thanks for your work. I’m playing around with a brand new color sense module now, did you have any trouble with the sensitivity? If I hold a bright blue card I get an RGB of 47, 52, 48, a bright red card seems to pick up a little more at 111, 46, 42, and a green card gives me 48, 70, 39, this is with the on-board LED’s turned on.