The Colour and Gesture Sensor APDS-9960 Breakout combines gesture, proximity, ambient light, and RGB colour sensing in a single I2C module with Qwiic.

The Colour and Gesture Sensor APDS-9960 Breakout is a compact and powerful module designed for multiple sensing capabilities. It enables gesture recognition, allowing it to detect movements such as up, down, left, and right. In addition to gestures, it features proximity sensing, accurately measuring the distance of objects within a range of 10 to 20cm. This makes it ideal for interactive applications and touchless control systems.

Create awesome user inputs with the APDS-9960, the all-in-one sensor that detects gestures, proximity, ambient light, and RGB colours. It’s a way to build smarter, more interactive projects. Whether you’re designing a hands-free user interface, a robot that can sense its surroundings, or a display that automatically adjusts to ambient light, the APDS-9960 provides the multi-faceted sensing capabilities you need.

The integrated ambient light and RGB colour sensor can measure the intensity and colour of light, making it perfect for applications like automatic screen brightness adjustment or colour sorting robots. With built-in UV and IR filters, you can be sure that your readings are accurate and free from interference.

What makes this breakout special is its seamless integration into our Qwiic ecosystem, allowing for quick connections with all your boards. As with all our products, it’s open-source, with all design files available for you to modify and adapt.

Features

• Voltage: 3.3V
• Voltage I2C: 3.3V
• Connectors: 2x Qwiic
• Dimensions: 38 x 22mm

Resources

• Full product documentation
• Pinout drawing
• Hardware details
• Arduino library documentation
• Open source hardware files
• Getting started with Arduino
• Arduino library
• Micropython module

Package Contents

• 1x Colour and Gesture Sensor APDS-9960 Breakout
• 1x Header strip