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Turn your iPod into a Universal Remote
no_demons writes "Some clever souls over at engadget.com have posted an excellent tutorial in turning your iPod into a IR remote control. You also need a Pocket PC, an IR gadget from Griffin and a bit of patience, but hey, it's still a cool hack."
It's a pad of paper. To turn it into a remote control, all you need is the pad of paper (of course) and a remote control.
However,
Hey, that's cool. And with this, you can turn your iPod into a car.
Griffin demoed the PodMate at the 2002 MacWorld Expo. They were controlling a Sony TV and Stereo at their booth with one of these devices. Apple asked them not to develop it further for some reason.
They scrapped the plans and then made it part of their Griffin Mobile division - selling it for the iPaq originally.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
I'm not interested in the whole PocketPC process, but the fact that you can do it is awesome.
Slap together an IR "microphone" and do it yourself if you don't like their process. I don't plan on rushing out to buy a PocketPC to try this, but that it can be done is worth noting.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
1. Buy iPod.
2. But $10 universal remote from WalMart.
3. Use corner of universal remote to push iPod buttons and rotate volume dealy-widget.
So much more cool and high tech than using your primitve old finger.
--- Ban humanity.
Is that you can, apparently, just hook up an infrared transceiver to a standard 3.5mm earphone/microphone plug..
So really, you only need the infrared-tranceiver-plug and some software to record sound. You sample the "sound" that comes from the tranceiver, then plug it into lineout and play back..
Of course, you can also hook up a microphone to your TVs tranceiver, and just play the recorded sounds out loud. Kind of like an old school "clicker" remote control that worked by audio. In fact, you could probably, with enough training, learn how to shriek directly in television-ese!
Captain crunch would approve.
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It's really quite intuitive.
If you take a $10 item, and modify it to replace a $1000 item, that's probably a good hack.
If you take a $1000 item, and modify it to replace a $10 item, that's not a good hack. That's just stupidity.
It takes no cleverness to waste money.
There is much pleasure in useless information.There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
You know what would be REALLY cool? Turn my remote into an iPod. Now there's a mod I could get into.
This project describes the most interesting part of this hack... converting the IR into a waveform in the first place. That Griffin gadget is fascinating.
The article talks about how you read off the IR codes in the first place, and convert them into usable waveforms. It uses C# targetted for PocketPC. I found the underpinnings of this hack far more interesting than the hack itself.
Reminds me of a Dale Gribble quote from King of the Hill:
"If you want, I can show you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite."
Actually, it seems like it works by recording IR signals as audio, and then re-broadcasting by playing the sounds. Actually that's kind of interesting.
But, it would work with any Mp3 player, so it's a little annoying that they focused on the iPod exclusively, when any digital audio player would work.
It would also be a HUGE pain in the ass to actualy use, especialy if you've already got a pocket PC that could do all that already without all the work...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Jesus fucking christ, people. You're like a bunch of five-year-olds. Huhuhuhuh... let's read the misleading summary and make fun of it!
The hack is to record the IR pulses as sound files and play them back with an IR LED connected to the iPod's headphone port. It's a really smart and cool idea but I guess you guys wouldn't know one of those if it bit you on your collective ass.
The reason the article calls for a Pocket PC is because it can read ifrared signals and pass those to the headphone jack for output. If you just piped the IR port on a computer to the sound out device, you'd have the same solution, minus the Pocket PC. This is NOT like the stupid-ass iPod to iPod transfer "hack" from a while ago. This is an actual neat concept that I'd wish you'd stop shitting all over with your ignorance.
Thank you.