Mx Rey (Fuck ICE) 💜 🏳️⚧️"So, solar panels and LEDs are basically the same--"
"what??"
"They're like speakers and microphones--"
"WHAT!!"
"what??"
"They're like speakers and microphones--"
"WHAT!!"
Spottyfox斑狐狸@rey Wait, what?!
@spottyfox which part
@rey The solar panel - LED part, had no idea
@spottyfox so they're basically the same: semiconductor junctions that deal with photons. if you apply enough light to a LED, it'll produce a voltage. if you apply enough voltage to a solar panel, it'll emit light. neither do a good job of doing the wrong thing, but they do
Zelda 
joe@zelda @rey @spottyfox
Shapolab has a demonstration
https://misskey.io/notes/a8qj96g25z6f0ac7
btw Albert Einstein got his Nobel price for his work on this photoelectric effect : D
Shapolab has a demonstration
https://misskey.io/notes/a8qj96g25z6f0ac7
btw Albert Einstein got his Nobel price for his work on this photoelectric effect : D
@Joe_von_Saporski @rey @spottyfox that's a very cool proof of concept/demo! thanks :OO
i knew about the microphone/speaker part, it just seemed crazy to me that it would work with LEDs as well heh
@zelda @rey @spottyfox
There was a hardware bug in the Raspberry 3 I think. Everytime someone took a photo with flash lights the rpi crashed. Turned out, one package wasn't so light sealed as thought : D
btw @shapoco also built a bigger reflector and used high power LEDs
1000millimeter@Joe_von_Saporski @zelda @rey @spottyfox @shapoco It was the package of a voltage regulator. However I thought it was an earlier raspberry but may have been 3.