Mute-tater lives!

I've been working on the mutetater program and board, and have it mostly sorted out, including the bulk of the mounting details. I etched a small 1-sided board to hold my old Arduino Mini, with transistors rigged like the TV-B-Gone v1.2, and headers for four LEDs, a button, ftdi programming cable, and 5V power. I'm using a Bodhilabs "VPack" with a single cr2032 to get 5V, and its header works nicely for mounting a power switch. It all fits in the foam potato, so now to figure out the button and LED mounting.

Mutetater: IR work

I was able to get an IR LED to snap the trigger on my Rebel XT following jaycee's example in the Arduino forum-- pretty simple code.

It looks like I'll need to use more complicated, standard remote control protocols for "mute"-- RC5, RC5X and RC6 come up in searches, and Allesandro Lambardi did much of the legwork programming Arduino to read RC5 signals.

Time to dig through the TV-B-Gone threads at Limor's forums...