Controlling Four Color Sensors Simultaneously

[makeinspires]

Hey everyone!
I'm about to begin a challenging project and I would love some help!
Our project will use adafruit four color sensors to detect colors and report them back. We'll have four colors and a few sequences of colors programmed so when you place the colors in the correct sequence on the sensors you get a positive result (like a green LED).
From what I understand I'll need multiple Arduinos to accomplish this. I have never connected multiple Arduinos together, only seen a few tutorials.
Anyone have suggestions?
Thanks!

[adafruit_support_bill]

There are a couple of ways to go about that. The problem is that the color sensors all have the same i2c address, so you can only put one on the i2c bus. There are i2c multiplexers that effectively give you more i2c busses, http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/10/ ... er-shield/

The other option is to use multiple Arduinos. You could wire one sensor to each Arduino and communicate between them using Software Serial.
http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/softwareSerial

[makeinspires]

Do you have any examples of projects connecting multiple arduinos using SoftwareSerial?

[adafruit_support_bill]

We do not have any tutorials on the subject. The SoftwareSerial reference documentation is here http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/SoftwareSerial