Using his Open Bench logic sniffer and an IR receiver from an old VCR, he deciphered his remote’s encoding system. He then programmed an ATtiny13 to decode messages received by the IR sensor ...

In fact, if you removed the sensor, you could reuse it and connect it to the IR transmitter. It wasn’t clear how you could easily package the RF transmitter and the remote.

TV remotes still use infrared because it’s cheap, universal, and reliable. Remotes often use IR for basic functions and ...

Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) allows you to use inexpensive hardware to control your Linux PC with a TV remote control. Why would you want to control your PC with a TV remote control? A number ...

The beautiful thing about Remote Control For TV is that it works through an IR sensor or WiFi. So you have at least two methods for using a universal remote app with your TV.

For today's how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface for our PC. We took a few pieces from various designs to come up our own, built ...

IR Remote Control Basics A multitude of IR remote control communication schemes have been incorporated in commercial equipment for the last forty years.

Researchers have developed a smart sensor for DARPA that’s capable of identifying infrared -- without having to have its own power source.