Good day to all! In today's article, I would like to tell you about a rather interesting module with the well-known AliExpress website. I think many have heard or even quite often use photocells for their projects and
homemade, there are a huge number of different photocells: photoresistors, photodiodes, phototransistors, and so on, you can even carefully cut the top cap off of the old metal transistor and this will also be a photocell, so you can even make a solar battery, though of course it is better that the crystals inside the transistor are closer to each other . Well, the main problem of many photosensors is their sensitivity, you can bring a directional light source to them, but they will almost never react. But there are more accurate and sensitive photocells. It is about such an element that will be discussed today.
This module is called TEMT6000, it is very small in itself, there are 3 pins on the board for connecting to an arduino and one hole, sort of for mounting, the photocell itself is located between the holes, small parts are included for more convenient connection of the module. Its sensitivity is 570 nm, which is very, very not bad, the operating temperature is from -60 to +60 degrees Celsius.
You can feed the module directly from the Arduino built-in back-ups.
I think many will appreciate this product, because it can be used in a huge variety of its projects.
The price for this module is (at the time of writing) 54 rubles, the price can constantly change. Free shipping.
Well, thank you all for your attention and good luck in future projects, friends!
