Comments on: Building A Boxee Remote Control

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:42:45 +0000

Felix: The labeling on the schematic may be a bit confusing. The line labeled “serial out” is the serial output from the ATMega, which is connected to the router’s serial input line.

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:26:00 +0000

Hi, this post is very helpful as I am also thinking about a WRT54GL-Arduino project.
On the schematic, should the zener diode be connected to the serial in of the router instead of serial out?

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:21:11 +0000

Hi plooger,

You should be able to use the same hardware configuration as I did for your project – the Arduino IR library supports transmitting as well as receiving, so you could also use that for modulating an IR LED.

As some of the commenters on Hack-A-Day mentioned, if you use a low-voltage microcontroller, you can get rid of most of the external parts as well.

By: plooger

plooger — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:56:14 +0000

Very innovative; congrats on your project.

Curiously, I’m looking for a bit of the reverse, a WRT54G hack that can receive a “signal” via the network, either wired or wireless, and emit an infrared signal (either via a built-in emitter or emitter extension wires).

By: Rodrigo Medina

Rodrigo Medina — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:56:11 +0000

Hey congratulations for this projects its really awesome I don´t now if you have noticed but this kind of inventions are going to change the way people entertain itself we are at the end of the TV era as we know it congratulations again and keep up the good work.

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