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Infrared remote controls are ubiquitous, they’re used everywhere but we don’t give them much thought. The goal of this project is to investigate the invisible signals emitted by remote controls.
This IR hacking tool can visualize infrared signals on a Java logic analyzer, record and replay infrared signals, and decode them. USB infrared remote control receiver transmitter is a mouthful, so we just call it the USB IR Toy.
- Control your computer with a remote using the IR decoder mode
- Visualize IR remote signals on a PC logic analyzer
- Raw IR IO mode receives, transmits, and clones IR signals
- Play the TV-B-Gone TV POWER codes
- USB upgradable
- Open source code and hardware
You can get an assembled USB IR Toy for $20, including worldwide shipping. Seeed Studio is currently hosting a preorder. The hardware will be manufactured the first week of February, but it might not get packed and shipped until later in February due to the Chinese New Year holiday.
Read about the design after the break.
We posted the Instructables version of the RGB remote control pumpkin.
Halloween is only a few days away. We’re getting into the spirit by building a remote control color changing pumpkin. Channel buttons 0-8 on the remote toggle the colors of the rainbow. Button 9 activates an ‘angry pumpkin’ mode that flashes a scary red strobe for a few seconds.
It uses a minimal PIC 18F2550 circuit that decodes the remote control signals and drives a ShiftBrite color changing LED module. The F2550 is a USB PIC with a USB bootloader, so it’s technically a USB upgradable pumpkin too.
Dangerous Prototypes 