Gesture Control With Maker Nano RP2040 And APDS9960

Introduction

In this tutorial today, we shall see how to interface Maker Nano RP2040, APDS 9960 and servo motor to perform a gesture control

Video

Hardware Preparation

For this tutorial we will need the following components

Building The Circuit

To interface all the components together, i have decided to built a simple circuit on a donut board. The circuit is as shown below

Please do note that the Arduino shown in the image above is the classic Arduino Nano. I have this, because there is no library for Maker Nano RP2040 yet inside the Fritzing.

Code

Below is the complete code that we have used in this tutorial

#include "Adafruit_APDS9960.h"
#include 
Adafruit_APDS9960 apds;
Servo myservo1,myservo2;

// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  myservo1.attach(2);
  myservo2.attach(3);
  if (!apds.begin()) {
    Serial.println("failed to initialize device! Please check your wiring.");
  }
  else Serial.println("Device initialized!");

  //gesture mode will be entered once proximity mode senses something close
  apds.enableProximity(true);
  apds.enableGesture(true);
}

// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
  //read a gesture from the device
  uint8_t gesture = apds.readGesture();
  if (gesture == APDS9960_DOWN) 
  {
    Serial.println("v");   
    myservo2.write(0);   
  }
  if (gesture == APDS9960_UP) 
  {
  Serial.println("^"); 
  myservo2.write(180); 
  }
  if (gesture == APDS9960_LEFT)
  {
  Serial.println("<");
  myservo1.write(180); 
  }
  if (gesture == APDS9960_RIGHT) 
  {Serial.println(">");
  myservo1.write(0); 
  }
}

Thank You

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"Please be reminded, this tutorial is prepared for you to try and learn.
You are encouraged to improve the code for a better application."