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Simple Gesture Control Using IR Sensors

Controlling things using gesture is always exciting and fun but, with the sensors available in the market for recognizing gestures are pretty costly. So how can we make a simple gesture control using few dollars? Well, IR sensors when used properly can be used to recognize simple gestures. Using 2 IR sensors we can make it recognize four kinds of gestures, which are left swipe, right swipe, waving your hand and moving your hand forward and backwards.
We will make this project using SLabs-32. It has an onboard TFT screen which we can make use of by displaying images when a particular gesture is recognized.
SLabs-32 comes handy with these kind-off projects, we have a lot of resources onboard on SLabs-32. We can also use the SD card to display images onto the TFT screen and change whenever we swipe left or right.”

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