Success with IR remotes in Week #1?

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

...I think it should be not too difficult to completely bypass the IR board and hook a Vishay...style receiver up to the RC and read the IR transmissions directly. We've been doing it for years with PIC 16f627 and 16f84 chips on mini-sumo robots that we build, but we use PIC Basic Pro, which has some very efficient commands for doing that kind of stuff and only use the Sony IR protocol. We'll need to put together some good C programmers to come up with a reliable and simple way of doing it on the RC.

This should make the task a bit easier:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=65065

-Kevin