Questions tagged [remote]

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How do low price toys implement RF communication

I have seen toy remote controlled cars and other toys available for real low prices. How do they implement RF communication? I mean to say when I search for RF units to buy they come at a pretty high prices. So obviously there is some way of…
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Fix remote controller button contacts

On almost every remote controller the buttons stop reacting after a while, and you end up squeezing the remote out of his life while trying to switch the channel... I found some link where it explains how to "refresh" the contact-making surface on…
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IR Remote code for Arduino

I've just hidden away our entertainment centre electronics including our Infrared controlled DVD Player, Amp and Mac Mini . I was wondering if there is any IR Remote code for Arduino, that I can use to eventually control the entertainment centre. I…
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How do they remote control the military drones?

I am interested to remote control something (sorry for the vagueness) over a distance of several hundred kilometers to a place where there are no internet cables. Therefore, I am interested to know how the US Military remote controlls their drones.…
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For remoting 1000Base-T ethernet connector, is it better to remote PHY from magnetics or magnetics from connector?

I'm in need of remoting the gigabit ethernet connector from the main board to a back end board that has all the other connectors. I plan on doing this with a high speed board to board connector (Samtec QRF8-026-05.0-L-D-A-GP which has a ground plane…
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Using the iPhone to control a remote controlled car via Arduino

So i started this project a while back where i made a remote controlled car that i could control with the directional buttons on my keyboard via an Arduino -> now the next step i want to do is to get the tilt control in my iPhone to be driving the…
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Cloning a 433Mhz Transmitter using RWS-375 Receiver

I've bought that famous Receiver/Transmitter RWS-375 and TWS 375. I want to clone the remote control of my garage door. So I connected the RWS-375 in my Arduino, and build a program to receive the sinal that the remote control send. However every…
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Remote Controlled Water Valve

I have been planning on building a rain water collection system for my parents to be used for watering their dogs outside. I thought it would be a cool project to automate the watering process. Basically, it should be gravity fed so there will be no…
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Components for a WiFi enabled IR controller

I don't have any experience with electronics really but I do have experience in programming. I'm interested in writing a program to control my stereo, TV etc. To achieve this I'll need a piece of hardware which is WiFi capable and can generate a…
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Unexpected bits when shifting out (ATtiny85)

I'm trying to spoof a 433 MHz remote and I have a sequence of 32 bytes that I want to repeatedly shift out to one of ATtiny85's pins. The signal then goes to a cheap Chinese-type 433 Mhz transmitter. I utilized the built-in 8-bit Timer/Counter0.…
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tiny RC receiver for bristlebot?

I made a small bristlebot . my version can turn left and right using two vibrators and is controlled by an ATTiny uC. I would like to add remote control functionality so i'm asking what's the simplest and smallest component(s) I can add to my…
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How hard would it be to hack a "personal soundtrack shirt"

I imagine this is an unusual question for this SE site but here it goes. I just bought a "personal soundtrack shirt" from think geek . This shirt is really cool. It comes with a built in speaker an amplifier (batteries not included) and a wired…
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Connecting the Wii remote to a computer via Bluetooth

How do i connect a Wii remote to my Mac via Bluetooth?
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NPN (2N2222) transistor as a switch replacement for a RF garage control

I'm looking to "replace" a physical keypress on a garage door remote control (RF) with a pulse (HIGH state) from a Wemos D1 mini 3.3V pin. The remote control is this one I measured the voltage on each button terminal (5.88V) and you can see the…
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Identify RF 433 MHz chip in remote to reproduce it

I've recently bought a ceiling fan (Suilon Cambil) and I wanted to automate it substituting the remote it comes with, with a DIY one connected to Alexa. Main problem is that I haven't been able to identify the chip (image attached) and Suilon's…
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