One of Ian’s projects featured at Hack a Day, a USB remote control receiver, was the 5th most popular project of 2009. We’re surprised the Bus Pirate didn’t make that list, but we’re proud of this project too. Our primary music and video player is a PC, we made this device because we needed it, […]
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Easy infrared UART data link
Here’s an easy way to transfer data with an infrared LED and an infrared remote control demodulator. The example uses an Arduino, but the technique will work with any microcontroller. The transmitting microcontroller powers an IR LED from a pin configured as a 38KHz pulse-width modulator. Another pin configured as a 2400bps UART switches the […]