Lumpeenjussi is using a BeagleBoard to run a web server that controls his air conditioner via the USB Infrared Toy transmitter. An app on his Android phone interfaces with the server so he can control his AC from anywhere. Via … Read more
Matt Richardson over at MAKE presents this cool solution to listening to the audio portion of the garbage overload known as entertainment news. He has design this project known as Enough Already which mutes the audio portion of a TV … Read more
Chris from PyroElectro writes us with this useful project to communicate serial data over an infrared link. Here’s an article that explains how to create a wireless infrared transmitter using an IR LED and a wireless IR receiver using a … Read more
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science(PLOTS) provides this detailed tutorial on hacking a Canon Powershot A490 digital camera to allow it to record images in the infrared light spectrum. The mod involves opening the camera and removing the … Read more
Chris made a mutant video game controller, console, and more, all wrapped up in a small project box. Check out the list of features: Propeller Board USB, Net Server, BlueSmirf Bluetooth, X-bee, DeadOn RTC, Lipo and onboard charger, On board … Read more
This article from Radosław Kwiecień’s website shows how to decode RC5 IR signals from a remote control using the 16-bit Timer1 and INT0 external interrupt input in the ATtiny2313 Atmel AVR device. All code in assembly in available in a … Read more
Dmitry Grinberg had a few PIC12F1840 MCUs lying around, and wanted to use them in some type of IR remote control project. He decided to construct a remote control mood light using the PICs in both transmitter and receiver. Four … Read more
Siliconfish used to build IR cameras for a living, so he knows something about the effects light of various IR wavelengths can have on a camera. When his town installed photo cameras on the traffic lights, he decided to experiment … Read more
MickM tipped us to a treasure trove of infrared remote control info at JP1 Remotes.
Here’s a video of Jeri Ellsworth’s latest project for element14, a shooting arcade game using the MachXO2 CPLD. The game is simple in principle: use an LED light gun to shoot the light sensors representing the bad guys when they … Read more
IgorPlugUDP is an ethernet-enabled infrared receiver. This is an old hack that kmmankad brought up in the forum. What makes it really cool is that the ethernet is bitbanged using nothing but the bare pins of an ATMEGA168. It is … Read more
We found this Waterwall project on the Sump.org site, and while its an oldie it’s just too funny to pass up. This project is the logical result from combining my wish to keep them out of my room with their … Read more
Tronixstuff has posted a tutorial explaining how to implement IR remote control in an Arduino project. His demo uses the Vishay TSOP4138 IR receiver and his own downloadable IRremote library for Arduino. This segment is the latest in a series … Read more
In this project, Gareth from Let’s Make Robots demonstrates how to interface a Parallax Propeller with the WiiMote and LCD display to form a white board. Inspired by the work of Johnnie Chung Lee with the WiiMote, Gareth uses the … Read more
Here is a three-part series by basbrun progressing from analyzing IR protocol to using Arduino’s to control X10 devices via IR: Part 1 -examining the IR protocol (the USB Infrared toy could be used in this step!) Part 2 -controlling … Read more
Why do traffic lights seem to change green whenever emergency and government vehicles approach? Through the use of various technologies, one of which involves use of a Mobile InfraRed Transmitter (MIRT). An IR sensing device like that pictured above is … Read more
This PIC18F2550 USB HID device is an IR multimedia control board designed to support Winamp and MS PowerPoint. Via the contact form.
As you travel this holiday weekend you may notice these IR devices mounted on police vehicles, at turnpike toll plazas and elsewhere along highways. They are designed to automatically read license plate numbers and check them against a database. Here’s … Read more
Arthur sent in his USB infrared decoder. It uses a PIC18F2550 to process the IR signal and send it to the PC as keyboard commands. Via the contact form.
In this project, Oh-zap uses a Picaxe 08-M along with a Sony protocol remote to control the movement of a servo with attached webcam. Via Electronics-lab.com
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