A surplus store in our city is selling the "Jeteye PC" device for $1.
It appears to be a rs232 IR sender/receiver in a cute small package. I cracked it open and found 3 SMD chips, a crystal and a 2 bulb IR device (plus a few caps and transistors).
I looked up the chips with an online data sheet service. One of the chips is a 8 pin low dropout regulator.
The other 2 have me stumped: (1) 7001 90B823 (2) TI 84D13RK LV00
Ideally I would figure out where to tap the TTL levels so I could directly attach it to a PIC.
Has anyone played with these things?
----- some more info I found; plus I metered the ports ------
The baud rate is selected by the DTR and RTS serial lines according to the following:
Baud Rate DTR - Pin 4 RTS - Pin 7
9600 0 1 19200 1 0 115200 1 1After changing DTR and/or RTS to change the baud rate, allow 0.5 microseconds for the JetEye to stabilize before sending or receiving data.
Do not select DTR=0 RTS=0, since this will power down the JetEye if it is running with no transformer. The JetEye needs 100 milliseconds on power up to stabilize.
Signal Assignments: DCD - 1 - Not Used Rx - 2 - Data transmitted from JetEye to PC Tx - 3 - Data transmitted from PC to JetEye DTR - 4 - Supplies power to the JetEye GND - 5 - Signal Ground DSR - 6 - Not Used RTS - 7 - Supplies power to the JetEye CTS - 8 - Not Used RI - 9 - Not Used
The JetEye supports only half-duplex operation. This is a characteristic of infrared.