Sunday, January 18, 2009

IR Receiver Revisited, Improved

Lately I've come up with many ideas for circuits that need to be remotely controlled. I thought that I'd revisit my old IR project and improve it so that it is useable in other circuits. 

Here is a video of it working:


In order to store the IR signal, you need to turn a switch on and feed the microcontroller the IR signal you want it to remember. The green light means it recognized the stored signal. In the video above, I had the receiver circuit set to receive the 1 button, and changed it to wait for the 2 button to be pressed.

Further improvements I plan to make are: to scale down its size, to make it more reliable, and design a board layout for it.

With this circuit completed I can finally start making remote controlled robots and other cool electronic devices.