remote control; cheap; 2 channels of control; ideas?

Jan 03, 2008 5 Replies

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donald

Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 643,000 for cheap remote control. (0.21 seconds) IR, Radio, other ?? Distance ?? good luck donald

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Electronics hacker here. (Have electronics tech school background)



Can someone suggest a route, some ideas, on how to implement a cheap remote control? I'd like something that offers a couple of discreet signals to control simple "on/off" functionality.



Chipsets, modules; just starting this and need some basic ideas. I can do the research - just point me. (First time ever working with this kind of thing.)



Thank you very much.


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Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 643,000 for cheap remote control. (0.21 seconds)

IR, Radio, other ??

Distance ??

good luck

donald

Thanks. I'm searching thru there now. 10 feet. IR/Radio/other ... cheapest.

-rp

I got two of these in the impulse bin at some drugstore or something, for about two bucks apiece:

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It's got forward/reverse, and right/left - that's two channels with three states each. (off, 1, 2); I don't know if that's really 4 channels or if the two have 3 states each.

I could send you one to hack, for a few bucks to cover "shipping and handling". ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

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Looks like I'm there. Thanks.

Hack an old R/C toy car. You get 4 functions - forward, back, let, right. Have fun!

Ed

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