Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-06 Thread VirtuAlex
Jeff Sadowski wrote: Along this note check out the http://lirc.org/ And you can buy a usb transciever here http://iguanaworks.net/products.psp That is hardly viable solution. For data transmission to some IR device maybe but not as remote. You can stick into FR all sorts of USB goodies.

Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-06 Thread Jeff Sadowski
Does the free runner have ir transmitters? If so you can probably use lirc to do all that you need. There should be a lirc driver for the device. If not you would need to add some kind of hardware anyways. The usb device i had pointed to can get extra stuff into lirc with its ir recievers like

Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-06 Thread VirtuAlex
Jeff Sadowski wrote: If you need to add hardware really take a look at the lirc page they have page after page of different ways to hook up ir devices and configuration pages for lots of common remotes. You can build a serial attached device for real cheap embed the stuff in your phone as

Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-06 Thread Jeff Sadowski
So question looking at the freerunner specs it says something like 3 serial ports one for gps one for ... and one for console. The console? Maybe this would be a prime choice for plugging in a lirc transmitter? Once booted and the display is running the console could be used for this right? I'm

A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-05 Thread Sébastien Lorquet
(should be posting this to hardware, but not sure of how much people are reading it :) ) the inventor of TV-B-Gone decided to opensource his greatest invention: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/patentbgone_inventor_mitc.html nice move :) PS: can we have IRDA on GTA0n? :)

A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-05 Thread Sébastien Lorquet
(should be posting this to hardware, but not sure of how much people are reading it :) ) the inventor of TV-B-Gone decided to opensource his greatest invention: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/patentbgone_inventor_mitc.html nice move :) PS: can we have IRDA on GTA0n? :)

Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-05 Thread VirtuAlex
Sébastien Lorquet wrote: (should be posting this to hardware, but not sure of how much people are reading it :) ) the inventor of TV-B-Gone decided to opensource his greatest invention: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/patentbgone_inventor_mitc.html nice move :) PS: can

Re: A new open source hardware: TV-B-Gone

2008-11-05 Thread Jeff Sadowski
Along this note check out the http://lirc.org/ And you can buy a usb transciever here http://iguanaworks.net/products.psp On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:05 AM, VirtuAlex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sébastien Lorquet wrote: (should be posting this to hardware, but not sure of how much people are