Ken Shirriff's blog

The Arduino language lets you program microcontrollers at a high level, controlling I/O pins without worry about exactly how the micro...

Back in 2009 I wrote an Arduino library ( IRRemote ) to encode and decode infrared signals for remote controls. I got an email recently fr...

Have you ever wondered what's inside a Mac's Magsafe connector? What controls the light? How does the Mac know what kind of charger ...

I recently wound up on CNN for a couple seconds doing some Arduino hacking as part of a segment on Google's workshops. Click the image ...

I've extended my Arduino IRremote library to support RC6 codes up to 64 bits long. Now your Arduino can control your Xbox by acting a...

You can use an IR remote to control your computer's keyboard and mouse by using my Arduino IR remote library and a small microcontroll...

Thanks to Paul Stoffregen of PJRC , my Arduino IR remote library now runs on a bunch of different platforms, including the Teensy , Arduin...

I wrote an IR remote library for the Arduino ( details ) that has turned out to be popular. I want to make sure I don't break things a...

Oct 2016: An updated version of the code is on github , thanks to Gabriel Staples . The TV-B-Gone is a tiny infrared remote that can tu...

My driveway has a gate that automatically opens when you drive up, and then closes. Recently it stopped working and this blog post describe...

This article describes how to understand Sony IR codes and how to get them from the LIRC files. The article is intended to describe codes f...