Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino
I needed to log when a light switched on and off during the night as part of debugging an oddly behaving movement sensor. To do that I built a really simple light sensor logger using an Arduino Leonardo, a large LED and a resistor or three. Here it is:And here's the entire Arduino code: analogReference(EXTERNAL); Serial.println(analogRead(A1));The main loop() just reads the voltage across the LED from analog input A1 and writes it to the serial port. Then it waits for a second. The setup() rou...
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