Light dependent resistors perhaps?
Or photodiodes in reverse bias?
sorry about the introduction of reality
relurk time
(
Gobfrey Shrdlu put his plans for world domination into effect on,
Fri 2 Nov 2007, 19:37,
archived)
actually
LED's when correctly biased can act as photoreceptors
basically, on a red LED, you need aboout 0.7v of bias voltage to allow them to overcome the ............
anyways, sorry for the correction to the reality induction
(
bleugh,
Sat 3 Nov 2007, 13:12,
archived)