I have now got a picaxe chip to turn on and off a camera infrared remote and so activate the shutter of the Canon G2 at regular intervals. (Thanks David, thanks Phil) Simple enough, if a little messy and tedious. But I am getting a little more ambitious. It is obvious that I can discard the I.R. remote control and drive an I.R. LED directly from the picaxe, if I could find out what is the sequence of pulses that the camera is expecting. The picaxe has an inbuilt set of I.R. codes, all of which I have tried, to no avail. The picaxe can also send single pulses, and I believe this is the way to go. Find out what is required, write some little loops, and fit the 8-pin picaxe, a couple of resistors and an infrared led and a couple of batteries into a Dick Smith switched battery case. It all comes back to knowing what pulses to send. Canon is hopeless. Their websites are hopeless, and if you finally get through to a human being, they are hopeless. I guess they wouldn't disclose the information anyway. It might cost them a $19.95 sale or two. But there has to be a way to find out what the hand-held I.R. device is sending. Any suggestions? I have a few computers available, and an old CRO. I wonder if there is some way to remove the IR LED in the hand-held, and send the output to a sound card and look at the input some way. Someone out there has the answer, and it might well be one of you guys. I hope so.
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15 years ago