Color Recognition Module TCS230 TCS3200

TCS3200 chips is designed to detect the color of the light incident on it. It has an array of photo-diode (a matrix of 8x8,so a total 64 sensors). These photo-diodes are covered with three type of filters. Sixteen sensor have RED filter over them thus can measure only the component of red in the incident light. Like wise other sixteen have green filter and sixteen have blue filter. As you should know that any visible color can be broken into three primary colors. So these three type of filtered sensors helps measure the weight-age if each of primary color colors in incident light. the rest 16 sensors have clear filter.