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Component Types

📄️ Sensors

A sensor component is a bidirectional data component that encompasses everything from temperature, light, and capacitance measurements, to accent LEDs. Sensor components are used for anything that doesn't have a specialized component. For example, you'd use a sensor component for a bend sensor, however, you'd use a movement component for a brushless motor with an encoder. For more complex LED matrices, you'll want to define a display component instead to take advantage of the hardware accelerated, centralized, and programmatically efficient renderer; however, the development libraries have smooth timing functions for things like LED strips when a sensor component is accessed as something like an LED/set of LEDs, or a servo, etc.