The old phone remote was caveman-simple, and I mean that as a compliment.

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The new hotness in consumer electronics might be RF remotes based on protocols like Bluetooth Low Energy, but there’s still plenty of life left in the classic infrared remote. Especially with projects ...

TV remote pointed at a TV with media tiles flying off it in all directions - Proxima Studio/Shutterstock Say it out loud, and you feel like the hero in an old spy thriller: infrared. Or maybe it's ...

Forget 4K displays. Artist Chris Shen has different ideas about how a TV should look—so he built a display from 625 linked remote controls to produce images using their infrared bulbs. Shen rounded up ...

Finally, IR takes an almost trivial amount of engineering resources to add to a device. Slap some buttons on a stick of plastic and assign each one a numeric code. The bluetooth hardware might be ...

Universal remotes are a handy tool to have around if you have many devices that would all otherwise have their own remote controls. Merging them all into a single device leads to less clutter and less ...

I'm going to bite the bullet and go for the Nvidia Shield TV Pro. I have a Logitech Harmony 650 remote, which is IR only. I would like to have the Shield up and running in an integrated fashion on the ...

Infrared remote controllers are everywhere around us. The majority of home appliances are controlled using infrared remote controls. In this article/video, we will learn how to build a device that can ...

Say it out loud, and you feel like the hero in an old spy thriller: infrared. Or maybe it's just us. Either way, infrared (IR) now feels like a quaint technology, a relic from a bygone era. In the age ...