On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:51:13AM +1000, [email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:21:20PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > > nicholas wrote: > > > > Is there a way to read the current value of the 1.75's ambient light > > > > sensor? It'd be neat if that could be displayed by an activity. > > > > > > there is. turtleart can do this, i believe. > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Light_Sensor#Programming > > > > > As I have a tiny understanding of LEDs, I recall something about being able > > to detect light with them. > > Are any of the LEDs on the XO-1 or XO-1.5 able to do this? I'm guessing no, > > but > > I'd thought I'd 'throw it out there' to see if it was possible. > > Since it was done for the xo-1.75, that would imply support and thus even > > if it > > was possible on the other units, it would not be supported. > > On the XO-1 and 1.5 it is possible to use the camera as a light sensor, see > Turtle Art Yeah, I had forgotten about that in the talk of leds. something to consider. thanks.
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