Gesture control with APDS-9960

broberg

@strawberry-3.141 Yeah I saw that one to when I was looking around,
It works basically on the same principle as the touch foil I have besides me right now, so anything of metal would disrupt it I think, (I’m really hopeful the optical sensor will work through the mirror glass)

cowboysdude

@broberg Let us all know if it does :)

broberg

Well, It doesn’t work through the glass. But it works!

and it’s somewhat sensitive to get the motions right, maybe that is a software issue and not hardware, BUT it does read side to side and up down. Which is good and opens up to navigate modules easier.

But it bugs me that I have to build a box for it outside the mirror.

broberg

Okey guys, I’d really need some guidance. My head goes round in circles and I don’t know where to start.

As mentioned before I’ve gotten the sensor to work with the help of wiringPi and a c library converted for the pi.

Then I Found this : https://github.com/jiahuang/apds-gesture
a control driver for node, but that is using a Tessel and I can’t really understand how to replace the tessel line with Raspberry.

I’m guessing I need an i2c module to let the apds-gesture connect to the raspberrys pins?

bibi

@broberg did you find any suitable solution or stopped your project?

broberg

@bibi It’s on hold, the big drawback is that I haven’t included space for any sensor in the frame, so any addon would “stick out” and look wonky.
So maybe I’ll just add some physical buttons and make a tree style menu instead.

bibi

@broberg yea haven’t neither think about room for it while building my one… :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

A Former User

I’m not sure whether it is compatible with APDS-9960, but I made a module for GroveGesture Sensor(PAJ7620u2 compatible)
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-GroveGestures

bibi

@sean said in Gesture control with APDS-9960:

PAJ7620u2

no idea as well… waiting on my sensor APDS… once received, i’ll test with your module :thumbs_up_medium-light_skin_tone:

bolish

Hi,
I’ve the PAJ7620u2 one.
I’m experiencing some stability issue with it (it always stops working after some minutes) but overall it’s great. I will post about the stability issue later on.

I’m interested into how you guys are using the sensor in a "beautiful way).
Before buying it, I thought I could cover it with some “speaker fabric” but it’s not working neither…

Do you have some smart ideas on your side on how to hide it?

Regards