What is a Photo Resistor

Photocells, (LDR) Light Dependent Resistor, Photo Resistor, Cadium Sulfide Cell (CdS), all of these names refer to the same thing. Photo Cells are semiconductors that are also resistors that change their resistance depending on the amount of light.

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DIY Function (Signal) Generator

 

Here is my homemade function generator that can produce a square, triangle, and sign wave. This is all done with a few bucks worth of parts. The heart of the function generator is a LM324N quad OpAmp. I got the schematic off of a site where they were also selling kits to build the signal generator.

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What is a LED

An LED or Light Emitting Diode is a low power semiconductor light source used in lots of electronic devices. LEDs are closeley related to transistors and regular diodes.

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