LED AS a LIGHT SENSOR

LED = Light Emitting Diode
Which is intentionally made to emit the light and it uses semiconductor material.
It has been observe that this normal led is not only emitting the light of particular wavelength but the most amazing fact found that the same LED is converting light energy into electrical signal
so this can be used as a light sensor.

IF YOU WILL MEASURE VOLTAGE OF LED IN LIGHT AND IN ABSENCE OF LIGHT YOU WILL GET FAR DIFFERENCE BUT IT IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO LIGHT INTENSITY.


YOU CAN USE SERIES AND PARALLEL COMBINATION OF LED TO MAKE A CELL (A LIGHT CELL)

You can use any led

By this sensor we can get the direction of light, and its cheaper and easily available.. I used ARDUINO UNO hardware to simplify circuits by micro controller then analog circuit using transistor as a comparator.

1-ARDUINO BOARD ANY VERSION
2-USB CABLE
3- LED 2 PIECE
4-COMPUTER WITH ARDUINO SOFTWERE

In this circuit we connect,

1st LED: to a analog pin 1 of Arduino and ground- anode is to Arduino pin 0 and cathod is connected to ground

2nd LED: is connected to Digital pin 12 or 13 of Arduino and ground- anode to digital pin 12/13 and cathod to ground you can use series resistor for digital pin 12 or 13

int sensorLEDPin = 0 ; // LED as sensor +VE connected to analog pin 0 -VE connected to ground of arduino

int auxopPin = 12; // I have used additional external led for demostration as on board pin13 led cant be seen to ALL

int LEDPin = 13 ; // LED connected to digital pin 13

int LEDval = 0 ; //Variable to store the the LED sensor value

int light = 220; //SETS the intensity of light different led have different sensetive

//auxpin is auxilary pin

// you can use serial moniter and check your led value and choose threshold value
// if in light if it stays at 220 then you can use value for threshold around 200 or 210

// if light falls below this then your circuit led will glow

void setup()

{

pinMode(13,OUTPUT);

pinMode(12,OUTPUT);

Serial.begin(9600);

}

void loop()
{

LEDval = analogRead(sensorLEDPin);

Serial.println(LEDval);

delay(1000);

if (LEDval >= light)

{ // check if light

digitalWrite(LEDPin, LOW); // if light is there outside, turn off led

digitalWrite(auxopPin, LOW);

}

else

{

digitalWrite(LEDPin, HIGH); // if dark, turn on led

digitalWrite(auxopPin, HIGH);

}

}

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