...but things do work. Eventually.

For my mediabox I've needed an IR receiver for remote control purposes. Having fried the old HP4103 module, I went to shop for parts: some project boards, diodes, resistors and caps, an IR detector and a voltage regulator.

 2005_02_11-soldering-mess.jpg

After messing up the place somewhat I ended up with this:

 2005_02_11-ir-detector-run1.jpg  2005_02_11-ir-detector-run1-bottom.jpg

Not too bad, fits in the old HP case. But: it doesn't work. There's 3.x volt where there should be 5 or 10, and no signal reception. A lot of tracing down things later I realised that I had installed the IR detector mirrored...sigh.

The final result of some moving around of as few components as possible:

 2005_02_11-ir-detector-run2-top.jpg  2005_02_13-ir-detector-final.jpg

And now it works. I've also found something called the IR Filechooser, a nicely hackable piece of perl that allows easy navigation and playing of content via remote. Slightly ugly code, but a nice and simple tool.

[ published on Sun 20.02.2005 00:35 | filed in brainfarts | ]
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