LilyPad Light Sensor Hookup Guide

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Introduction

The LilyPad Light Sensor is an e-textile friendly version of the Ambient Light Sensor Breakout. If you've used the breakout in a project before, the hookup and code will be very similar. You will need to connect to a LilyPad Arduino or other microcontroller to read the sensor values and use in your code.

This sensor outputs an analog value from 0 to 3.3V. In bright light (full daylight) this sensor will output 3.3V, and if completely covered will output 0V. In a typical indoor lighting situation, the sensor will output from around 1 to 2V.

LilyPad Light Sensor

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To follow along with the code examples, we recommend:

Suggested Reading

To add this sensor to a project, you should be comfortable sewing with conductive thread and uploading code to your LilyPad Arduino. Here are some tutorials to review before working with this sensor:

If you have not used the TEMT6000 light sensor before, we recommend checking out the TEMT6000 Hookup Guide for basic information regarding that sensor.