Day 10: Light and Color Sensors

Today we worked on our sensors that we will use for our robots. Since we are now in teams and we have to build 2 sensors, each person built one.

My partner TC got the easier one, the light sensor, which sends out an infrared beam and then reads the amount of light that was reflected by the surface.

I got the color sensor, which has a lot of bugs and even with debugging and using the oscilloscope, I had a hard time finishing it. I will have to finish it another time because i did not get the chance to finish. I did not feel bad though, because not everyone who had the color sensor even got down to soldering.

This is what i have so far:

When this sensor is done, it will have the ability to detect the difference between green, red, and blue light. This will be helpful in our robotics challenge as it seems we are to have our robots distinguish colors and collect the right colored can while in autonomous mode.