Old infrared remote controls can be a great way to interface with your projects. One of [AnalysIR’s] latest blog posts goes over the simplest way to create an Arduino based IR receiver, making it ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...

Here’s the front-end circuit of the IR sniffer. The hardware will capture an IR code and retransmit it on demand. The schematic isn’t particularly complex. The IR receiver module is represented here ...