I recently bought myself an Arduino and I happened to have an infrared detector too. Therefore, (obviously) I had to figure out how to use ALL of the remote controls in my house to do something ...

As you might have noticed, the 38-KHz pulse generator is built around the evergreen timer chip NE555P (IC1). Here, the RC components (R5-C3-P1) set the astable frequency to drive the infrared light ...

* This protocol has 30 bits. The format is one IMON_UNIT header pulse, * followed by 30 bits. Each bit is one IMON_UNIT check field, and then * one IMON_UNIT field with the actual bit (1=space, ...