Every now and then a remote control acts up. Maybe you are trying to change the channel on your television and it’s just not working. A quick way to determine if the remote control is still ...

This video covers the NEC family of protocols, which are widely used in typical consumer IR remote control devices ... need no stinkin’ integrated-circuit IR receiver implementation because ...

For today's how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface ... but ours worked fine. The receiver portion is pretty simple.

One simple way to achieve this goal is to use a widely available IR receiver, such as a TSOP17xx or similar receiver from Vishay that finds use in IR-remote-control applications ... to a PC’s serial ...