Nuts and Volts - February 2012

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February 2012

FIGURE 8. Program listing for Arduino as a stand-alone remote control.

changes accurately reproduced what the actual remote control was sending.

The hardware side is the easiest part of the whole process (Figure 9). All that is needed is an IR LED (I tried several different ones I had lying around the

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