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Originally Posted by Tom Line
Dave, can you perhaps give us a nudge in the right direction for a commercially available board? I spent 30 minutes googling for programmable IR boards with digital outputs and didn't come up with anything even resembling what we're using.
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Here are some random thoughts on this issue.
1) Doing a little reverse engineering on the IR board code, it looks like the brown out reset bit has not been set within the PIC16F87 design, which could be a problem. If there is interest, I could provide a modified hex file with this bit set. You'd need to buy or make a PIC programmer.
2) Back in 2004, I developed the infrared beacon system for FIRST. With a little bit of code and a $1 Vishay IR sensor, you could turn your robot controller into the IR receiver. The 2004 code and documentation can be found
here. Of course, if teams want to standardize on one protocol, I'd be happy to provide some sample code.
-Kevin