Hi, i want help in building an IR receiver circuit that can receive signals from 20-25 feet of an IR transmitter. Please help me in identifying the type and range of components to be used in such a circuit.
This receiver is to be connected with a digital clock that can respond to the signals from the IR transmitter and hence change time/date accordingly.
Go to Radio Shack and save time: 38kHz Infrared (IR) Receiver Module Model: 276-640 | Catalog #: 276-640 Great for experimental projects and building your own remote control. Low-voltage. Elliptical lens h...
Dave
Well if you're going to do that, you might as well just wait for a TV set or cable converter on the sidewalk waiting for the garbage truck, and pull the circuitry from it. Often, it is indeed in the form of a discernible module. And the Radio Shack module is basically the same thing, the IR receptor and an IC amplifier.
Of course, neither solution does it all. All you get is a recovery of the modulation on the transmitter, and from there one has to decode the digital data and then use it to do actual switching. The module takes care of what it does, but that's all.
Michael
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