The project utilizes Motorola MC68HC908 MCU to create the USB-IR-BOY which is an LIRC compatible USB bus receiver hardware. Since most new computers are no longer including RS232 port, the use of ...

[Saulius] couldn’t find a cost-effective wireless scale that did what he wanted, so he reverse engineered the communication protocol for an off the shelf model to get weight data himself. [Saulius] ...

Now that we listen to MP3s, and watch XVIDs or x264s, a computer is the entertainment center in at least one room of most homes. Unless you have a special HTPC, though, you’re probably stuck using the ...

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 ...

I bought this off the Agora, sans-remote thinking I could use it as a USB IR Receiver and Blaster, but as of late discovered it only accepts IR signals from the original MS remote.<BR><BR>It works ...

Everybody realizes that the PlayStation 3 can do much more than just play video games. It can be used to view pictures, listen to music, or watch movies in high definition. So what’s missing? Infrared ...