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    Gesture control with APDS-9960

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    • brobergB Offline
      broberg Project Sponsor
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      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?

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

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        • brobergB Offline
          broberg Project Sponsor @bibi
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          @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.

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

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              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

              2.1.0 demo

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                bibi
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                @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:

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                  bolish
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                  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

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                    bibi @bolish
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                    @bolish i thought about it meantimes i am waiting for delivery… i was thinking to make a kind of slot in one of the wooden frame side, just enough to make so that the wood layer is so thin that i hope it will let pass the gesture but it will be difficult to do as my mirror is already build now and i can’s say for now if it will work. if you come up with another idea… feel free to share :)

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                      bolish
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                      @bibi
                      I’ve already made some trials with 1mm thin wood. Forget about it.
                      You will find the product data sheet with some recommandation at the bottom of below page :
                      link text

                      I’ve tried behing 2mm wood, with a hole (3mm diameter), it works fine. Not so ugly…

                      Let’s see.

                      Regards

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                        bibi @bolish
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                        @bolish that’s exactly what i was thinking but thx for the recommendations… i will even not try an attempt then. i wanted smt “beautiful” as you mentioned but without seeing the sensor…
                        hmm i’ll think about smt or maybe i’ll check another solution as voice command… with jarvis

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                          wifibum
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                          Did you ever get the APDS-9960 working with MM? I happen to have one, would keep me from ordering something else.

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                          • wishmaster270W Offline
                            wishmaster270 Module Developer @bibi
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                            @bibi I am using an Apds sensor with other sensors on a Arduino connected to the pi via serial interface. I documented it and wrote a universal module to receive messages on the serial interface. You can find my documentation at Examples

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                              wifibum @wishmaster270
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                              @wishmaster270 , Sweet! Thanks!!

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