[Jordan’s] sensor includes just a single pixel. The sensor is really just an infrared photodiode inside of a tube. The diode is connected to an analog input pin on an Arduino.

Because of the affordability and seeming ubiquity of the Arduino platform, they have been hard at work this last month trying to get their Geiger counter sensor board for an Arduino out the door.

STMicroelectronics has introduced a multi-spectral ambient light (plus UVA and near-IR) sensor, with flicker detection, in a package smaller than 1mm x 2mm. Applications are foreseen with phone ...

When a finger or other object touches the surface, it causes the IR light to scatter in many directions. Some of this light is directed down into the screen, towards an array of 64 IR sensors.

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced the OH02A1S—the world’s first RGB-IR medical image ...