Hackaday

Color Sensing With An RGB LED And Photoresistor

[Fjord Carver] brings together an RGB LED and CdS Photoresistor to make a color sensor. Those Cadmium Sulfide lights sensors usually have a very wide swing of resistance when exposed to varying levels ...
Business Wire

TAOS, the Leading Global Supplier of Integrated Light Sensors, Debuts Industry’s First Digital Color Sensors with On-Chip IR Filtering and Proximity Sensing

For color sensing in closed environments with no IR light sources, the TCS3x71 Series applications include closed-loop color temperature feedback control in solid-state lighting (SSL) and LED RGB ...
EDN

Using small MCUs for color control of LED lighting apps

The adoption of LEDs for general lighting is just around the corner. LEDs offer many advantages in general illumination systems, including longer lifetimes and greater efficiency, but they present ...
Machine Design

Sensor Lets Machines See Color Intensity

EMX Industries Inc., introduced the ColorMax-1000, the first color sensor that outputs color intensity. The ColorMax-1000 color sensor has a high-intensity white LED that projects modulated light on a ...
Electronic Design

Reflective Sensor Perceives Degrees Of Color

Allowing users to detect color differences in liquids or solids, the company's reflective sensor assembly combines a white LED with a reflective color-sensor chip in a miniature plastic housing ...
Hackaday

Color Sensor Gives The RGB Values Of Anything

[Rick Osgood] wanted to build a color sensor that could be held up to any object to get RGB color values. He originally started with a photoresistor and a few LEDs, but couldn’t get that to work ...
EDN

How to use programmable analog for high-power LED color mixing applications

Abstract: Programmable analog circuitry adds analog functionality to reprogrammable digital electronics. The combination provides flexibility to end users and offers unique advantages to designers in ...