I found this quite interesting:
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?lay...
If you don't have an available ADC for an LDR this is an option. Anyone have any good ideas in what applications this might be useful?
I found this quite interesting:
http://www.edn.com/index.asp?lay...
If you don't have an available ADC for an LDR this is an option. Anyone have any good ideas in what applications this might be useful?
Backlight control/regulation, Contrast control regulation, heliostat aiming, light control/dimmer, etc.
Guillem.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
@Guillem:
You might as well use an LDR for those applications..
Now the cool thing would be if you could do this with laser-diodes and measure the light in one specific point far away :D
Not too long ago there was a thread in this forum about this.
Just as a reminder: don't try to witness this effect by attaching an oscilloscope-probe to the LED: no matter how good quality it is, 10* or 100*, the circuit will not work. The impedance of the probe being the reason. It felt a kind of freaky .... it works but as soon as you have a "look" with the scope, it no longer works.
In quantum theory research they found the same effect: watching a phenomenae has an effect on the phenomenae ..... wooohoooo .... spooky ....
Nard
edit: I tried to find that old topic, but this is all what I could find: https://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=53465&highlight=led
You might as well use an LDR for those applications..
LED's also have some other interesting features: sensitivity to different wavelengths, directivity, RoHS, double use, etc. that may (or may not) force to use them instead of LDR, for particular uses.
Another use that I saw: a 'touch screen' over a LED matrix, that use this effect just to detect the 'pressed LED'.
Guillem.
Guillem, that's the one I was looking for.
Darn, cannot find it ....
It was in the OffTopic too, but that is more than a year ago.
here is a link to a youtube video : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7k...
That's indeed the one that year-back thread was about. Neat huh ?
cheers
yup, I just wonder how well it will work in a light room....
it took a little googling to find it. couldn't find the original thread.
That touch screen is indeed very neat :-)
I guess this can be used similar to capacative sensing, very neat for boxes that needs to be waterproof but you still need a light to show you the buttons. Underwater etc..
In my opinion that EDN article is a direct copy of MERL article about the same subject.
Too bad I just bought an AVR book by the same EDN article writer, Dhananay V. Gadre, he also wrote a book called Programming and Customizing the AVR microcontroller. Very beginner level stuff, I think I'll sell that book to some newbie or donate it to the university electronics club.
If I had remembered who the EDN writer was, that book would still be in the store :)
- Jani