This minimalist beauty uses an Arduino Nano and RGB sensor to assess the color. At the top, a small servo rotates an arm inside the hopper that both shakes the Skittles and sets them up single ...

A TCS3200 color sensor is a much better choice, and you can buy a nice assemble module for about $2 from our friends in Shenzhen. And before you say the point here is DIY, DIY doesn’t mean 20 ...

If you are interested in building your very own scanning camera components used to create the Arduino powered single pixel scanning camera include an Arduino Uno, Adafruit RGB Colour Sensor ...

Arduino color picker reveals real world color RGB values. ... Michael Klements’ Arduino-based scanner lets you quantify colors in numerical RGB values via a TCS34725 sensor.

The Arduino Nano itself is the most basic and oldest of the group, and just like its many iterations, it's designed to work primarily with breadboards, making it a great tool for prototyping.

So you've already outgrown Arduino's most beginner-friendly board, the Uno, and are looking to move on to bigger, more exciting projects.In that case, the Nano family might just be what you need ...

You can actually build your own color-sensing lamp with this $8 Adafruit RGB color sensor, and follow along with plenty of Arduino tutorials online. But look how cool and sleek its product video ...