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HOWTO - make a serial port IR receiver

Alessio Sangalli has been maintaining a guide for a few years that shows you how to create a serial port IR receiver from scratch and use it in both Windows and Linux. Her design is pretty slick since, as you can see from her photo above, the whole package fits neatly inside a standard 9 pin serial connector. There are still plenty of machines that don't have built-in IR support, so this could be handy if you're thinking of turning an old box into a media player or DVR.

How To Build A Simple But Cool IR (Infra Red) Receiver

Posted by Jason Striegel | Sep 10, 2008 09:58 PM
Electronics, Home Theater, Linux, Windows | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Posted by: Jakob Einar on September 11, 2008 at 6:21 AM

Nice HOWTO

This is a nice HOWTO and very easy to build from salvaged material. What I encountered however was that volt output from serialport varies both in pinouts and volts from PC to PC. I still havent been able to make this work in practice but it works great hooked to powersupply and LED to show activity.

If anyone knows of a solution, drop me a line