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
Brian Campbell@rey this is also why if you take a picture of your raspberry pi with a flash you can cause it to crash.
And those aren't even semiconductor junctions that were made for dealing with photons
7leaguebootdisk𓅽@unlambda @rey silicon is transparent to infra-red, Bunnie uses of to validate chips. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2023/infra-red-in-situ-iris-inspection-of-silicon/