Color Sensor (Light Sensor)

This sensor enables the robot to “see” light intensity and colors. We prefer to call it Color Sensor. It can differentiate between most basic colors and thus help the robot act accordingly when it detects or does not detect your color of choice.

Drag a Forever <Loop> from the Control Panel onto the programming canvas.

This way, the program will test for a color repeatedly.

The <IF-THEN-ELSE> Block determines what the robot will do when it detects a color (IF-THEN), and what to do when the color is not detected (ELSE).

Make sure to place it “inside” the <Loop> Block.

Drag a Color Sensor Block from the Sensors menu and “insert” it into the top of the <IF-THEN-ELSE> Block.

Set the color you want the sensor to detect.

Here, we selected “red”.

Make sure the Port on the Sensor Block matches the Port on the robot (on the back, labelled 1-4).

Here, the Color Sensor is plugged into Port 1 and it is also shown on screen.

Drag a <Sound> Block into the IF-THEN part.

Then, choose a sound you want the robot to play when it sees the chosen color.

We chose the sound “red”.

Next, choose a sound you would like the robot to play when is does not see the color.

Add it to the ELSE part.

We chose “no”.

Test your program by pressing PLAY and downloading it to the robot.

To stop the robot when it detects red, select the <Stop> Block from the Controls menu.

Insert it after the sound confirming that “red” was found.