>Someone of you mentioned that an ordinary led can be used as a light 
>sensor.


Have a look at the second item in here
http://www.edn.com/contents/images/6382647.pdf

Note that the PDf file is loaded as an image in a web page, so don't right 
click and do save as, you need to load the page in a browser.

Painful system I know ... 

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