Circuit 3B: Distance Sensor (I don't see an equivalent circuit in the SIK v3.3 guide)

This distance sensor circuit was cool and seems like it could be very useful. I found that I had to adjust the values to make the LED lights up a different distances. I converted the units of measure to centimeters by using the formula (as shown on the datasheet (https://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Sensors/Proximity/HCSR04.pdf) to uS / 58 = centimeters (as opposed to uS / 148 for inches):

 calcualtedDistance = echoTime / 58.0;

Adding a third color was easy. I did this by adding an additional else if statement that if the ultasonic device measures between the distance of 20 to 30 cm, then the RGB LED turns green, and I changed the last else statement to make the RGB lED purple / magenta if it read any other value greater then 30 cm's away:

else if(20 < distance && distance < 30){ //if the object is between medium & long distance

//make the RGB LED green
 analogWrite(redPin, 0);
 analogWrite(greenPin, 255);
 analogWrite(bluePin, 0);

 } else{ //if the object is far away

 //make the RGB LED magenta
 analogWrite(redPin, 100);
 analogWrite(greenPin, 0);
 analogWrite(bluePin, 100); 
 }

Distance Sensor:

Modified Distance Sensor:

Distance Sensor Unit of measure (UOM) change to centimeters from inches