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USB Infrared Toy / Re: IR Extender
So I bit the bullet I unsoldered the LED and tried to solder a wire direct to the extender, needless to say my lack of skills FCUK'd the PCB :D (now charred PCB!)

However on further attempts I realized I can just use the two UART IRTX IRRX from the breakout on the side. The missing LED and scorched PCB seem to make little difference (harm) to the signal.

Tomorrow I will go the the electronics store gadgets in hand for some advice on how to permanently attach the extender to the IRTOY and report back after some more dangerous experimentation! First tests with the wires just twisted in place gave great results and I can control all my IR gadgets :)

Send IR to the extender felt a little "hit and miss" but somehow the direct connection from the IRTOY to the extender some how feels "cleaner" and the signals to the end point IR devices seems to work 98%.

Attached is a pictured before I butchered the poor devices so people can see what I mean. Ill post other pictures if any one is interested once I seek professional help (to solder ;) )

I have another TOY in the post and lessons learned from this project I will replace the slightly charcoaled version and report back as I think this is interesting. When I sought advise on how to improve the range in previous posts no one suggested this so I write with the pure aim that someone some day might stumble upon this and it provide a solution that does not require much in terms of brain capacity (something I have little of!)
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Linux Lirc (usb_irtoy driver) device stops responding
Following the advice above I find very similar findings:

Device Status:    0xfa08
Device Status:    0x9a08
Device Status:    0x7a08
Device Status:    0x1a08
Device Status:    0xda08
Device Status:    0xda08
Device Status:    0x8a08
Device Status:    0xfa08
Device Status:    0xea08
Device Status:    0xca08
Device Status:    0x0a08

Working:
Device Status:    0x0000


I would be quite happy to purchase new hardware if thats whys required (can't say the same for the guy who bought a stash!)

This is a really neat little product and I have it working doing some very neat stuff but the instability makes it unfit for purpose really :(

I dont mean to complain, really great job and I cant find anything even close out there. G/J
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USB Infrared Toy / IR Extender
So I have purchased this IR Extender device:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00F ... UTF8&psc=1

I was wondering what your thoughts might be in "hard wiring" the irtoy to this? Would it be as simple as unsoldering the transmitting IR LED on the toy and then snipping off the end of the "receiver" and soldering the pair of cables to the holes where the LED went on the toy?

If this is overly simplified please for give me I am not exactly an electronics guy as one might tell from this post ;)

[I asked about adding additional LEDs sometime ago to the toy itself but i could never figure it out :) ]
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Re: Drive more LEDs
Hello all has anyone gone any further with this? I would love to add several more LEDs (tx) to the device but I have zero electronics experience, I could probably solder a couple more wires etc but that's about it.

Could anyone explain to me if this could be done and possibly recommend the type of transmitting LED I would require.

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