Home-Brew IR port. Was - Please Ignore RS232 message.
The subject should read IrDA port... Sorry
Ian Stirling
openmoko at mauve.plus.com
Sat May 12 01:52:38 CEST 2007
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Jeff Andros writes:
>
>> Chicken and egg hoss, there's also no bluetooth remotes out yet to make it
>> worthwhile to have a bluetooth remote... I like the suggestion of a
>
> TV sets come with remotes so routinely that the usual chicken/egg
> problem doesn't seem to arise. Hmmm... which may point a different
> direction: as long as bluetooth is more expensive than IR...
Alas.
There is yet another wireless standard that's designed almost exactly
for this.
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MC13211&nodeId=01J4Fs25657103
A microcontroller, with 32GPIO and an integrated ZigBee radio, for $2.50
in 1000's, all in a 9*9mm package.
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