After completing this project I did a search for
sites containing IR related projects on the
internet. It turns out that there are quite a few
other designs available, but nobody else is silly
enough to record and synthesize the actual IR
stream via computer! So if this project is just
too simple and cheap for you, why not check out
the following:
- Electrical
Engineering Circuits Archive
- Tomi
Engdahl's Electrical Info Page
IrDA is the hardware used by laptop and some
desktop machines for communicating using a high
speed serial infrared link. It's not related to
the CIR except for the fact that it uses
infrared, and solves many problems the CIR
doesn't even attempt to touch, such as
networking, bidirectional communications, and
error correction.
If you want to use your laptop IrDA port as an
(expensive) remote control, check out the
following shareware application from a fellow in
Japan:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA005810/remocon/remocone.htm
Here are some starting points to learn more
about IrDA:
- Infrared
Data Association
- IrDA
Serial Infrared Interface Technology Page
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