Infrared Shield for Arduino
Contents
Introduction
This shield adds a pair of infrared transmitter and receiver to your Arduino. The spare area can also be used as breadboard. Interesting sample project is WiFi TV remote control using Android smartphone. All source codes are provided.
Model:IR_shield
Features
Application Ideas
Cautions
Schematic
download Schmatic of Infrared shield for Arduino
Specification
Pin definition and Rating
Mechanic Dimensions
Usage
In this tutorial, we are going to make a WiFi TV remote control using LinkSprite Infrared Shield and LinkSprite Juniper Gainspan WiFi shield. We also design an Android app so that you can control your TV using your Android smartphone without the need of the remote control.
Stop fighting for the remote control. Now everybody in the house has a remote control!
Steps
The Arduino code for infrared and gainspan can be downloaded from here.
Download Android source code for WiFi TV Remote Control here.
First, we need to configure the Juniper wifi shield. When use AT command to configure the Juniper WiFi shield, remove ATMEGA328P on the Arduino, short J4 (Pi1) and J5 (p2), Short J4 (pin2) and J5 (pin1), then connect the Arduino with Juniper installed to PC.
FAQ
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Support
If you have questions or other better design ideas, you can go to our forum to discuss or creat a ticket for your issue at linksprite support.
Resources
How to buy
See Also
Other related products and resources.
Licensing
This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Source code and libraries are licensed under GPL/LGPL, see source code files for details.