KY-010 Photo Interrupter Module and Raspberry Pi

In this example we take a look at the KY-010 Photo Interrupter Module and connect this to a Raspberry Pi.

The sensor uses a beam of light between the emitter and the detector to check if the path between both is being blocked by an object

Parts List

Layout

We use pin 40 (GPIO 21) in this example, you can use another GPIO pin.

pi and ky-010 layout

pi and ky-010 schematic

Code Examples

https://gist.github.com/getelectronics/757a044caeffe167e75037f4e42e884d

Download

code on github