Week 9: Segment 1: Controlling an Arduino with an Infrared remote control

This segment focuses on understanding and using infrared (IR) remote controls with the Arduino:

Goals:

• Understand IR transmission protocols
• Understand the hardware used to receive transmissions.
• Learn the basics of interpreting transmissions
• Learn to use the open source IRremote.h library.

In-Class Project:

• Use an IR remote control to control a servo motor or LEDs.
• Position the servo based on the pressed buttons on the remote, or turn LEDs on and off etc...

Materials for this segment:

• Watch the video on the right.
  
• Arduino sketches featured in the video.
• IRremote library.
• Read the website featured in the video where the use of the IRremote library is being discussed.

Main Arduino sketch used in the tutorial:

tutorial_ir_remote4_lcd.zip
File Size:	5 kb
File Type:	zip

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IRremote.h library (put in your library folder). This file was downloaded on 2/9/2014. Potentially newer versions can be downloaded here.

irremote.zip
File Size:	43 kb
File Type:	zip

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Demo Arduino sketch featured in the video that uses the IRremote.h library (note that the LCD printout is specific to using the in-vidoe featured remote control - use the serial monitor to view what your particular remote puts out):

tutorial_ir_remote5_library.zip
File Size:	1 kb
File Type:	zip

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