Color sensing

[N3utrin0]

Hi,

I am doing a project in which a robot (the NI starter kit 2.0) has a colour sensor attached to it and has to stop at the red colour. I am looking for a colour sensor compatible to the RIO board and programmable in LabView.

So far I have only found this one: http://www.hitechnic.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=NCO1038 . Are there any other sensors like this available, maybe more powerful?

Many thanks!

[mjo]

Sparkfun have a colour sensor breakout board that gives individual voltage outputs for R,G & B it is https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10904, but if you want to go digital (I2c) there is the SEN-10701 also from sparkfun and in a handy little breakout board https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10701.

Also, both of these boards may well need some kind optics to be useful for your application.

you have access to the FPGA module included witht the Robot kit, so you should have access to the LabVIEW tools network where you can get a copy of the SPI and I2C Driver information here https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/tools-network/download.spi-and-i2c-driver-api.html

The analog board might be a lot simpler to deal with if you don't have to worry about writing the code required to pull the data from the chip ...but where is the fun in that.

Hope this helps 🙂