Hardware development often involves working with things that can’t be directly perceived, which is one reason good development tools are so important. In appreciation of this, [David Johnson-Davies] ...

In today’s modern world, we find a wide range of appliances managed by handheld remote controls, whose decoder function historically has often been provided by a dedicated chip. However, given the ...

I am about to hook up a serial remote to an old box which will become the mp3 decoder for my stereo.<BR><BR>Currently the laptop is running win2k server, but I was wondering if there is a linux distro ...

[Benjamin] sent in the craziest thing I’ve seen lately. He’s using the magnetic pickup in his electric guitar to sense IR signals. The guitar is hooked to a preamp that’s feeding into his computer. By ...

After plugging the new DVD player into the s-video connector of the big screen TV and seeing the image, I knew there was no going back to composite video. A few weeks later I purchased a programmable ...