We’ve seen similar projects, but we are always struck how simple this sensor is to use. Combine these with an RGB LED and you can make a chameleon.

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You can throw a Raspberry Pi camera and OpenCV at the problem and approach it through software, or you can buy an off-the-shelf RGB sensor and wire it up to an Arduino.

If you’d like to get more specific, Michael Klements’ Arduino-based scanner lets you quantify colors in numerical RGB values via a TCS34725 sensor.

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The Nix Mini 2 Color-Matching Sensor can instantly match a scanned color to any of over 100,000 brand-name paints. The Nix Mini 2 Color-Matching Sensor can instantly match a scanned color to any ...

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