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Arduino for Kids

You're reading from   Arduino for Kids A cool guide to help kids develop robots and electronics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884818
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar Rishi Gaurav Bhatnagar
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Priya Kuber Priya Kuber
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Vijay Varada Vijay Varada
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The World around Us FREE CHAPTER 2. Systems and Logic 3. Components and Connections 4. The Magic Wand 5. Hello World! 6. Safety Box 7. Make a Friend 8. Save Energy 9. High 5! 10. Plant, Meet Arduino!

Light sensitivity sensor - LDR


We know how resistor works right? Let's go back to Chapter 3, Components and Connections for a quick recap and come back here. It essentially restricts the flow of electrons in a circuit. Light Depended Resistor is a special kind of resistor that reduces its resistance when light falls on it. How does that work you ask? Good question.

Let's dig a little deeper into what is LDR and how it works. First of all, this is how the symbol of LDR looks like:

  

(Image source: https://cdn.instructables.com/F1H/DRCQ/IDCXJLG6/F1HDRCQIDCXJLG6.MEDIUM.jpg)

Symbol:

The arrow signs coming down show the light falling on the LDR. You know what everything in the world is made up of right? Remember we learnt about electrons in the beginning of the book? Electrons are the fundamental part of any material.

Let's start from there. So similar to electrons, photons are fundamental part of light. Light is not made up of only particles though, it has waves too (I know right? We think we...

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