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Arduino TCS230 Color Recognition Sensor Module

This document describes the Arduino TCS230 color recognition sensor module. It contains: 1) An introduction to the sensor module which uses an integrated circuit containing photodiodes and a current-to-frequency converter to read color values. 2) Details on the pin definitions and working principles of how the sensor module detects red, green, and blue light intensities using different photodiode filters to obtain color readings. 3) Example Arduino code showing how to interface with the sensor module by connecting pins and obtaining RGB color values through interrupt routines and timers.

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Arduino TCS230 Color Recognition Sensor Module

This document describes the Arduino TCS230 color recognition sensor module. It contains: 1) An introduction to the sensor module which uses an integrated circuit containing photodiodes and a current-to-frequency converter to read color values. 2) Details on the pin definitions and working principles of how the sensor module detects red, green, and blue light intensities using different photodiode filters to obtain color readings. 3) Example Arduino code showing how to interface with the sensor module by connecting pins and obtaining RGB color values through interrupt routines and timers.

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Arduino TCS230 Color Recognition Sensor module

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1 Introduction 2 Features 3 Pin definition and working principle o 3.1 Pin definition o 3.2 Working principle 4 Wiring diagram 5 Example code 6 How to buy

Introduction

This breakout board is a color sensor based on TAOS TCS230 programmable color light to frequency converter which combines configurable silicon photodiodes and a current to-frequency convertor on single monolithic CMOS integrated cicuit. The light-to-frequency converter reads 8X8 array of photodiodes, each array could filter red, green, blue light or clear from light source via two control pins(S2,S3) and output a square wave(50% duty cycle) with frequency directly proportional to light intensity(irradiance). The full-scale output frequency can be scaled via two control input pin(S0,S1). Digital inputs and digital output allows direct interface to a microcontroller or other digital logic circuitry.

Features

High-Resolution Conversion of Light Intensity to Frequency Programmable Color and Full-Scale Output Frequency Communicates Directly With a Microcontroller Single-Supply Operation (2.7 V to 5.5 V) Power Down Feature Nonlinearity Error Typically 0.2% at 50 kHz Stable 200 ppm/C Temperature Coefficient Low-Profile Surface-Mount Package

Pin definition and working principle


Pin definition

Working principle

As we know, according to the RGB color model, a broad array colors is produced by red green and blue light added together in various ways. In other word, if we know the RGB data which constitutes different kind of color, we can get the certain color we test. With a certain color filter is selected(e.g red filter), TSC230 color sensor allows red light to get through alone and prevent other color green and blue light, so we can get the intensity of the red color. Blue and green light of intensity can be got in the same way.

TCS230 includes 8X8 array of photodiodes, 16 photodiodes have blue filters, 16 photodiodes have green filters, 16 photodiodes have green filters and 16 photodiodes are clear with no filters. With the different combination of S2 and S3, we can choose different type of color filter The full-scale output frequency can be scaled via two control input S0 and S1, by which we can output the different frequency coefficient (100%, 20%, 2%).

Wiring diagram

Here is the guide illustrates how to connect an Arduino to TCS230 Color Recognition Sensor module. The following is a table describing which pins on the Arduino should be connected to the pins on the TCS230 Color Sensor:

Example code
int s0=3,s1=4,s2=5,s3=6; int flag=0; int counter=0; int countR=0,countG=0,countB=0; void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); pinMode(s0,OUTPUT); pinMode(s1,OUTPUT); pinMode(s2,OUTPUT); pinMode(s3,OUTPUT); } void TCS() { digitalWrite(s1,HIGH); digitalWrite(s0,LOW); flag=0;

attachInterrupt(0, ISR_INTO, CHANGE); timer2_init(); } void ISR_INTO() { counter++; } void timer2_init(void) { TCCR2A=0x00; TCCR2B=0x07; //the clock frequency source 1024 points TCNT2= 100; //10 ms overflow again TIMSK2 = 0x01; //allow interrupt } int i=0; ISR(TIMER2_OVF_vect)//the timer 2, 10ms interrupt overflow again. Internal overflow interrupt executive function { TCNT2=100; flag++; if(flag==1) { counter=0; } else if(flag==2) { digitalWrite(s2,LOW); digitalWrite(s3,LOW); countR=counter/1.051; Serial.print("red="); Serial.println(countR,DEC); digitalWrite(s2,HIGH); digitalWrite(s3,HIGH); } else if(flag==3) { countG=counter/1.0157; Serial.print("green="); Serial.println(countG,DEC); digitalWrite(s2,LOW); digitalWrite(s3,HIGH); } else if(flag==4) { countB=counter/1.114; Serial.print("blue="); Serial.println(countB,DEC); digitalWrite(s2,LOW); digitalWrite(s3,LOW); } else { flag=0; TIMSK2 = 0x00; } counter=0; delay(2); } void loop() { delay(10);

TCS(); if((countR>10)||(countG>10)||(countB>10)) { if((countR>countG)&&(countR>countB)) { Serial.print("red"); Serial.print("\n"); delay(1000); } else if((countG>=countR)&&(countG>countB)) { Serial.print("green"); Serial.print("\n"); delay(1000); } else if((countB>countG)&&(countB>countR)) { Serial.print("blue"); Serial.print("\n"); delay(1000); } } else { delay(1000); } }

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