I wanted to see which light detector works best, because I'm making a remote light detector.
The digital receiver works fine. Yes its a superregen, and by default, the output is a 1, because what I get is noise.
What I want to do is make it so that when the transmitter is NOT activated by a reasonable amount of light (enough light so that you can read a book), it blocks out the noise. It seems that an LDR does not do the job.
So I need some other component that can detect light, and the only other one I can think of is a photodiode and a solar cell. I dont want to use a solar cell because they are too expensive, and bulky.