You can see the straight key being pressed by a hobby servo in the image above. The servo is driven by the Arduino, which will transmit the series of letters automatically.

[Dave Jones] from EEVBlog.com takes “Arduino fan boys” off the garden path getting down and dirty with different methods to capture, evaluate and retransmit IR remote control codes. Capturing ...

That said, the Electron is not intended to be a simple Arduino clone, and it does a very good job of incorporating cloud connectivity into sketch code with Particle-specific functions (sometimes ...