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 th

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 phon

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 othe

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 good

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

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 :) >

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? :) ___