So below is a picture of the circuit in its most basic form.

No LED protection for this

simple circuit, however building more modules would require a far better design than the
one shown...

Circuit Explination:

InfraRed light emmitting from the IR LED transmitter is beamed onto an obstacle (your
hand/finger etc.) and reflected onto the IR Receiver (a reverse biased IR LED) which
triggers the amplifier to turn on the green LED's.

In the circuit I am using an LM324 - Low Power Quad Operational Amplifier. This is due
to the fact that the reflected IR creates a small voltage on the receiver (depends on
variables however one test I did was around 150-200mV) and approx 16x gain so 2.4-
2.6V on the output.

Being a Quad OP Amp, I had 1 Green LED per output.

Because I only made this module as a "Proof of concept" I have not gone any further with
it... Hopefully when I get some time I might come back to
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