Ambient light click released
You can distinguish between dark, dim, light and superbright, but you can’t precisely
quantify light with your eyesight. When you need to, do it with Ambient click.
Ambient click converts light intensity into voltage. It carries the Melexis MLX75305
IC. The tiny, shiny speck on top of it is a CMOS optical sensor. The chip also
integrates a transimpendance amplifier, and an output transistor.
Ambient light sensors are widely used in portable devices with screens, in order to
automatically adjust backlight depending on how bright the surrounding is. If the screen
is outdoors in sunlight, brightness is amped up to max, if it’s inside and dark,
brightness is lowered to reduce eyestrain and conserve battery.
Also, smart home projects come to mind. Leaving on the light is like leaving an open
tap. Automate lighting and have one worry less. And you’ll wake up in the morning easier
if the light turns on by itself.
That’s the most obvious application but there’s more to it.
Ambient light sensors are useful wherever useful data can be deduced from the presence or
absence of light. You can tell if something, any sort of object, is in the right place
based on whether it casts a shadow over the sensor. Say, a piece of paper inside a
printer.
Details on the product page. Libstock examples also ready.
There’s also a light sensor click board with a digital output — check out Illumimance
click.
Yours sincerely,
MikroElektronika
Ambient light click released
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Re: Ambient light click released
#2 Post by MaGiK » 28 Jul 2015 06:29
Nice Click board! And seems very easy to be used
Requires only one pin, which is an analog signal, indeed very easy to be used
Just added it to the (To buy) list
Best Regards
Requires only one pin, which is an analog signal, indeed very easy to be used
Just added it to the (To buy) list
Best Regards
My hobby is collecting MikroElektronika products.
Gotta catch them all!
Gotta catch them all!
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