Pimoroni AS7262 6-channel Spectral Sensor (Spectrometer) Breakout

SKU: CE05969 Brand: Pimoroni

Detect six distinct channels of visible light with this fancy-pants spectral sensor! Read more...

$59.50 AUD, inc GST

$54.09 AUD, exc GST

In stock, ships same business day if ordered before 2PM
Delivered by Thu, 18th of Jul

Quantity Discounts:

6-12 $51.93 (exc GST)
12+ $50.31 (exc GST)

Detect six distinct channels of visible light with this fancy-pants spectral sensor!

Unlike normal RGB colour sensors, with the AS7262 you'll get six bands of colour readings that roughly translate to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Rainbow-y!

The two onboard white LEDs mean that you can illuminate materials to give more accurate spectral readings and also measure the reflectivity of surfaces. The LEDs Pimoroni has used are really high-quality ones with a CRI of >=90 and a colour temperature of 4,000K for consistent and accurate colour rendering.

You can do all sorts of cool things with this sensor, like analysing different light sources, measuring the transmission of light through materials or solutions (with an additional light source), and more. Why not combine the AS7262 breakout with one of our OLED breakouts, and chart the colour information on it?

The AS7262 6-Channel Spectral Sensor Breakout has an I2C interface and is 3.3V or 5V compatible. Like other Pimoroni breakouts, Pimoroni designed it so that you can solder a piece of right-angle header onto it and then pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi's GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 6, 9).

It's also compatible with Pimoroni's fancy new Breakout Garden, where using breakouts is as easy just popping it into one of the six slots and starting to grow your project, create, and code.

Features

AMS AS7262 6-channel spectral (visible) sensor
I2C interface (address: 0x49)
6 spectral channels (450, 500, 550, 570, 600, 650nm)
2 on-board illumination LEDs
3.3V or 5V compatible
Reverse polarity protection
Raspberry Pi-compatible pinout (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
Compatible with Raspberry Pi 3B+, 3, 2, B+, A+, Zero, and Zero W
Dimensions: 19x21x4mm
Python library
Datasheet

Kit includes

AS7262 6-Channel Spectral Sensor Breakout
1x 5 male header
1x 5 female right angle header

Software

Pimoroni put together a Python library that you can use to read data from your AS7262 6-Channel Spectral Sensor Breakout, an easy one-line installer to install everything and a couple of examples of reading data from it.

Pimoroni's software does not support Raspbian Wheezy.

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