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AT-HD600: 10 input to single HDMI with IR & RS232

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:01:07 +0000

The AT-HD600 can take two component/S-Video, two composite, three HDMI, and one VGA signal and scale it a single HDMI port. The switcher can be controlled manually and includes a IR and a RS232 port for remote control.

For more information: http://atlona.com/Atlona-10-input-Switcher-Scan-Converter-with-Single-HDMI-1.3-output-p-17820.html

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Playing WoW using TV remote control

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:30:25 +0000

I built a small circuit using an infrared receiver and a PIC24FJ64GB002 microcontroller that acts as USB keyboard. Pressing buttons on the tv remote control sends keystrokes to the PC just as if it is a normal keyboard. So any program on the PC that works with a keyboard should work with it. Here am I trying to play WoW with it.

Sorry about the low volume on the recording.

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PSP mit dem PS2 Controller steuern über USB Part2

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:15:37 +0000

By V0odOo
for
www.portable-news.de

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Infrared Time Lapse HDV – Canon A710 CHDK

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:13:04 +0000

Shots from my house and backyard. Camera was loaded with the CHDK interval software. Shutter: 2 seconds, aperture: f/8 and interval: 5 seconds. Watch the sequel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529eHXPlr7E&feature=response_watch

Duration : 0:1:2

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diy touch screen with wiimote and usb ir pen

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:38:22 +0000

Software from http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Wiimote tracks the infrared pen over the screen. Pen is powered over USB. See my blog http://joshh.uk.to/ for close ups of the pen construction and usb part.

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Wiimote Cintiq

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:17:09 +0000

Materials:

1.USB Bluetooth Adapter
2.Momentary Switch
3.Bic Pen stic grip – love it because the led sits perfectly on top
4.USB cable from an old usb mouse -you can use any usb 2.0 cable (most are 2.0), I just ripped it from my old mouse because it stopped working…like most gigaware products I’ve bought in the past…
5.wiimote
6.tripod – anything works really, as long as you can mount your wii and adjust the angle of elavation. I taped together three acrylic paint tubes, and taped on one of those adjusting combs to lay the wiimote on.
7.solder – diameter 60/40 rosin core
8.wire – 30awg
9.iron – 15 watts is more than enough
10.electrical tape – insulate to prevent short circuits (most useful on the led legs)
11.rotary tool – dremel, craftsman, doesn’t matter. Get one with variable speed, and a bit that can soften up the top of the pen. Then go in with your drill bit. This is to fit the momentary switch into the pen of course. Also to make a small hole at the bottom of the pen so that it leads out to power source.
12.ir led – make sure it’s infrared frequency and not visible frequency, I got mine from an old tv controller no on used anymore. The brighter, the better – remember, the wiimote has a small webcam in it that needs to be able to pick up this light, if it can’t, nothing registers on the pc.
13. Battery – if you’re going to make a portable version, just attach the two wires from the led to the positive and negative poles of the batter. This can be done several ways, the most convenient I would say is to get a battery holder. Getting a single 1.5v battery holder is easier since it won’t require any resistors and it’s easier to replace once it runs out of power.

You can also just spiral the ends of the stripped wires and attach them to either end of each battery using electrical tape, just make sure the contacts are clean, and there’s plenty of exposed wire making contact with the tips of the battery, or you’ll get a weak and unsteady connection.

Important Links:

http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/usb_cable_pinout.shtml

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

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My 30″ Home-Made Multi-Touch Screen

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:08:06 +0000

Made using PS3 eye webcam with IR blocking filter removed and a new filter that only allows 850nm IR light through. The projector is an Optoma EX525ST DLP Short Throw Projector and is mounted on a custom black acrylic stand made by my co-worker Casey at SparkFun. I’m also using the LLP method using two 850nm lasers and beam splitters to create a horizontal line just barely above the projection surface. The lasers are powered by some cables I made and are connected to SparkFun’s USB Breadboard Power Supply. The surface is clear 1/4″ acrylic with a large vellum sheet taped to the underside. The software used is Community Core Vision and Processing running Memo’s MSAFluid TUIO test slightly modified to allow for smoother TUIO inputs. Obviously this is an early video and a lot of calibration is required. Also the video is choppy and the multi-touch is less responsive than normal since I was running both webcams off my laptop along with dual monitors. I’ll record a better version soon once I have the rest of the case created.

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LIRC Part 2 — Mapping Buttons To Programs – Linux Mint 8

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:36:51 +0000

make sure to make a ~/.lircrc file & also enable lirc plugin for the apps, if exist otherwise watch part 3

heres a sample lirc mapping for some programs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7721395&postcount=3

http://lirc.org/
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/

button mapping examples
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LircHowto#Map%20buttons

commands used:
sudo gedit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
irw

LIRC (Linux Infrared remote control) is an open source package that allows users to receive and send infrared signals with a Linux-based computer system.

There is a Microsoft Windows equivalent of LIRC called WinLIRC.

With LIRC and an IR receiver the user can control their computer with almost any infrared remote control (e.g. a TV remote control). The user may for instance control DVD or music playback with their remote control.

One GUI frontend is KDELirc, built on the KDE libraries.

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LIRC Part 1 — Linux Infra-red Remote Control – Linux Mint 8

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:24:06 +0000

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ATI_Remote_Wonder
http://lirc.org/

#supported remotes; or make ur own, see part 2
http://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/

#commands:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart
lsmod | grep ati
ps -ef | grep lircd
sudo gedit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
irw

sudo gedit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

to remove lirc:
uninstall these lirc setserial libftdi1

LIRC (Linux Infrared remote control) is an open source package that allows users to receive and send infrared signals with a Linux-based computer system.

There is a Microsoft Windows equivalent of LIRC called WinLIRC.

One GUI frontend is KDELirc, built on the KDE libraries.

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BuyTV on G4 Top 10 Tech Countdown

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:24:10 +0000

Join Drew and Melissa as they countdown the hottest tech products around!
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PNYGEFORCE GTX260 SLI EXPRESS VIDEO CARD
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CREATIVE WIRELESS GAMING HEADSET
CORSAIR TX 650W ATX12V POWER SUPPLY
CAVALRY 500GB EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE
CORE 2 QUAD Q9550 2.80GHZ PROCESSOR
LOGITECH G51 GAMING SPEAKERS

Duration : 0:2:30

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