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Colour Sensor Circuit diagram is an interesting project for hobbyists. The circuit can sense eight colours, i.e. blue,green and red (primary colours); magenta, yellow and cyan (secondary colours); and black and white. The circuit is based on the fundamentals of optics and digital electronics. Colour Sensor Circuit diagram : Colour Sensor  Circuit Diagram The object whose colour is required to be detected should be placed in front of the system. The light rays reflected from the object will fall on the three convex lenses which are fixed in front of the three LDRs. The convex lenses are used to converge light rays. This helps to increase the sensitivity of LDRs. Blue, green and red glass plates (filters) are fixed in front of LDR1, LDR2 and LDR3 respecti ely. When reflected light rays from the object fall on the gadget, the coloured filter glass plates determine which of the LDRs would get triggered. The circuit makes use of only ‘AND’ gates and ‘NOT’ gates. When a primary colo...

Colour Sensor Circuit diagram is an interesting project for hobbyists. The circuit can sense eight colours, i.e. blue,green and red (primary colours); magenta, yellow and cyan (secondary colours); and black and white. The circuit is based on the fundamentals of optics and digital electronics. Colour Sensor Circuit diagram : Colour Sensor  Circuit Diagram The object whose colour is required to be detected should be placed in front of the system. The light rays reflected from the object will fall on the three convex lenses which are fixed in front of the three LDRs. The convex lenses are used to converge light rays. This helps to increase the sensitivity of LDRs. Blue, green and red glass plates (filters) are fixed in front of LDR1, LDR2 and LDR3 respectively. When reflected light rays from the object fall on the gadget, the coloured filter glass plates determine which of the LDRs would get triggered. The circuit makes use of only ‘AND’ gates and ‘NOT’ gates. When a primary coloure...

Stroboscope is a device used to make a cyclically moving object appear slow-moving or stationary. This is realised by illuminating the object intermittently with short pulses of light. Stroboscope is used in the study of insect flight. It can also be used for experiments with simple pendulum, studying details of rapidly moving objects and strobo-animation. Here is the circuit of a stroboscope that produces dual-coloured light pulses (refer Fig.1). The circuit uses red and green LEDs as light sources to illuminate the object. You can choose the frequency of the stroboscope’s light pulses from a wide range of 5 Hz to 5 kHz as desired. The range of frequency (5-50 Hz, 50-500 Hz, 500 Hz-5 kHz, etc) is selected through capacitors Ca (C2, C3 and C4), Cb (C5, C6 and C7) and Cc (C8, C9 and C10). Circuit diagram : Dual-Colour Stroboscope Circuit Diagram Smooth variation of the frequency range is achieved by varying VR1. The length of the light pulses (both red and green pulses are of equa...