Posted: January 10 2004 at 03:26 | IP Logged

Yes, you read right. A Lego IR Transceiver. I was getting ready to build a CIR when I stumbled upon this unit laying around and started wondering if it can be used with PH. You can see the piece taken apart along with the most technical specs I could find at this link color=#800080 http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/ . You have to scroll down a bit to see the portion devoted to the IR.

Posted: January 10 2004 at 22:10 | IP Logged

After looking at the link provided, it appears that the IR transceiver is interfaced with the serial port and as such is meant to send and receive commands from a PC wirelessly.  These types of signals would not be compatible with the IR which is associated with the control electronic equipment. 

Most consumer IR is of a pulse width modulation nature with a carrier frequency around 38Khz.  The type of IR used in serial communications is typically of an IRDA nature with the two being incompatible .

Sorry,

Dave.