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A couple of Arduino libraries I wrote, AS3935 lightning detector and TCS3471 color/light sensor

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A bit of a shameless self-promotion image I wrote two libraries for two interesting sensor chips, first is AS3935 lightning detector chip, that can warn you about coming storm while it is still 40 kilometers away and the second in high dinamic range 16bit resolution color and light sensor chip TCS34717. Both libraries in my opinion are interesting in the way communications are implemented, library code does not access any other library, like SPI or Wire, directly, but rather relies on user sketch to provide functions to communicate over SPI or i2c bus, which makes them usable with almost any imaginable setup and scenario.

Both libraries can be downloaded from my github - https://github.com/raivisr?tab=repositories

 

And break-outs if anyone is interested in these, can be purchased here - https://www.tindie.com/shops/TAUTIC

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  • Hi Raivis,

     

    I had been wondering about the performance to that lightning detection chip.

    I do lightning research in my spare time and I currently use an AM radio for discharge detection.  It would be interesting to see if your solution gives better performance.

     

    Have you verified the sensitivity of the color sensor?  How good is its spectral purity?

     

    Thanks

    DAB

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  • Hi Raivis,

     

    I had been wondering about the performance to that lightning detection chip.

    I do lightning research in my spare time and I currently use an AM radio for discharge detection.  It would be interesting to see if your solution gives better performance.

     

    Have you verified the sensitivity of the color sensor?  How good is its spectral purity?

     

    Thanks

    DAB

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    All I can say, it does indeed detect lightnings image I have no idea how good it is at it though.

    Regarding color sensor, I havent seen it in flesh, wrote library solely based on datasheet and then debuged it remotely on a laptop located in US that had arduino and sensor attached.