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== '''Introduction''' ==
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The RGB and Gesture Sensor is a small breakout board with a built in APDS-9960 sensor that offers ambient light and color measuring, proximity detection, and touchless gesture sensing. With this RGB and Gesture Sensor, you are able to control a computer, microcontroller, robot, and so on. It is the same sensor as Samsung Galaxy S5 uses and it is probably one of the best gesture sensors with this price on the market.

'''APDS-9960'''

It has many functions, including gesture detection, approaching detection, digital ambient light sensing and so on. It uses an 8-pin package and can be a digital RGB, an ambient light, a short range or a gesture sensing equipment. The device has many ports compatible with I2C, in different colors: red, green, blue, clear (RGBC). The short range and the gesture sensing have infrared LEDs. RGB and ambient light sensing can detect the intensity of light under many light conditions, through many vibration-absorptive materials and the deep tinted window. Besides, integrated UV-IR blocking filter can sense the ambient light and correlated colour temperature accurately.<br>
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<ul>
<li>Main Features</li>
<li>Type: GY-APDS9960-3.3</li>
<li>Chip: APDS-9960</li>
<li>Power Supply Voltage: 3.3V</li>
<li>Communication Mode: IIC communication protocol</li>
<li>Size: 20mm x 15.3mm </li>
</ul>

== '''Pin Description''' ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="2"|Pin Description
|-
|VL	
|Optional power to the IR LED if PS jumper is disconnected Must be 3.0 – 4.5V
|-
|GND	
|Connect to ground.
|-
|VCC	
|Used to power the APDS-9960 sensor. Must be 2.4 – 3.6
|-
|SDA	
|I²C data
|-
|SCL	
|I²C clock
|-
|IN	
|External interrupt pin. Active LOW on interrupt event
|}