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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