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Automatic LED display dimmer | microcontroller Project

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This example shows how to use a simple LED as light sensor, and to dim a 7-segments LED display with PWM automatically in the dark.
You will use :
  • the PIC analog input and its ADC
  • the PIC timer 0
  • a 4 digits 7 segments LED display
  • 2 buttons
  • a simple LED diode
Did you ever use 7 segments LED display ? Of course yes.
Then you surely adjusted the brightness of the LED, so that it is clearly readable in the day light.
But what happens in the dark ? Your display is simply too much bright !
How to know if it is bright or dark, without adding an analog extra-circuit ?
How to control the brightness of the display, without adding an analog extra-circuit ?
1. A LED as light sensor ?

 

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