Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 12Creating Your Own Universal Remote Control

Remote controls add a lot of convenience to our lives, but they aren’t without annoyances. Sometimes remotes don’t have a certain function that you’d like, such as a sleep timer. Plus, remote controls seem to reproduce at the same rate as rabbits. They quickly occupy your whole coffee table, and you have to feed them with expensive batteries that you don’t have at home when you need them during a football game. Universal remote controls reduce the pain, but even the most expensive products aren’t perfect.

Although we use remote controls every day, few of us understand how they work. In this chapter, you’ll find out how remote controls work from the inside out, and then you’ll build your own ...