[Jkx] was using a Thomson VS360U video transmitter ... IR module that comes with the device is under-powered and set out to fix the situation. Using a scope he found the pin that drives the IR LED.

An infrared transmitter can therefore now be integrated in extra-thin smartphones or tablet computers. For the first time, Osram Opto Semiconductors has succeeded in sinking a surface-mountable ...

But it struck us that you could wire the transmitter directly to the LED output and avoid the IR sensor at all. If there isn’t space in the remote case, maybe a 3D printed extension would do the ...