I have now the following:

http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/753815-relay-mini-dpdt-2a-5vdc-pc-mnt-ds2e-m-dc5v.html

A diode that appears to say "16".

How would I hook these up to create a virtual switch?

All I need to do really is touch two wires together momentarly. The problem is it is needs to be triggered by a left click as the program I am using converts sound into a left click

Is there anyway I can do this all without external hardware?

I have a camera flash that is triggered by putting two wires together. Is there any way to trigger that by plugging the wires into my arduino duemilanove and typing something into the serial monitor? It will need to be triggered my a left mouse click.

Yep, that is how I got this info. What I really want to do is have  3 sets of 22 led's powered by a 9 volt battery. Each set will bes used for light painting so all the receiver is really doing is switching between the sets when signaled by a Apple Remote. If this is not possible I will use the Ir switch to turn the battery on and off, and manually switch between sets.

You might be interested to know you can now get RGB LEDs in strip form complete with driver chips that allow individual control via some sort of serial interface to every LED - not cheap, but then 32 RGB leds aren't that cheap anyway - looks interesting and might be
useful for this project:

http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10312

And as a bonus, Sparkfun has supplied a example code! I am already getting this for light painting.

Yesterday I bought this board from the scrap bin at All Electronics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjelledge/

What I know about this board is that it has a IR receiver with the following specs:



  _________  Infrared sensor module
  |     _      |  Numbers printed on the top:
  |   |  |    |  TK69   931
  |   |  |    |  TSOP  1738
  |   |  |    |
  |   |  |    |  Front view showing the area
  |__|_|__|  receiving the IR signal
   |   |       |
   |   |       |
   |   |       |
   |   |       |
   |   |       |
   |   |       |
Gnd  |      Output
      +5V

There is a 12 pin right angle pin header on the board.

Is there any way I can use this to make a IR Power switch?

So I somewhat understand the circuit but where does E lead to and where does the Button and light go?

So I went to all electronics yesterday afternoon and picked up a http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/LPS-3G/12V-LIGHTED-PUSHBUTTON-2-GREEN-LENS//1.html.

I managed to find this about the button:
http://www.ultimarc.com/controldiags.html - Diagram
http://www.ultimarc.com/ultralux.html - Possible Product link

It looks like this buton can be controlled by a Pacdrive USB output driver board: http://www.ultimarc.com/pacdrive.html

Is there any way I can wire this up to my Arduino Duemilanove?

So there is no way for my Arduino to control these?

I just got a set of three 12v 20w Halogen Lamps meant to be used as kitchen counter lights fro my teacher. I really have no use for them so I decided I would put Red, Green, and Blue filters on them and try to make a RGB Setup controlled by an Arduino. The thing is I dont know how and if these are able to hook up to an Arduino Duemilanove. This seems like an easy project as it is almost like hooking up leds, but I just do not want anything to blow up or fry.

I will throw out my idea...

Have a button that physically presses the reset button on an arduino which will start a lcd display that says something and at the same time presses a button that starts a mechanical dummy lights and speakers and at the end using a delay spits out the fortune using two motors to grip the card and spit it out. for the dummy maybe you can use a mechanical Halloween head. I bet you can use the bill acceptor

To start again just press the reset button

What if I want to use both halves and use it as a Ebook Reader. Then it could be slow but at the same time be able to read txt files. An I would also want to have a way of scrolling like button pad.

3...2...1...GO!

PINOUT
1 Vdd
2 FG
3 CPX (Clock for shifting display data to column driver LSI)
4 N.C.
5 FRM (Frame start)
6 LOAD (Latch pulses)
7 Vss
8 N.C.
9 D0U \
10 D1U \ Data for upper screen
11 D2U /
12 D3U /
13 Vee (-22v)
14 Vlcd (-12~-21v LCD drive voltage)
15 Vss
16 D0L \
17 D1L \ Data for lower screen
18 D2L /
19 D3L /
20 Vss


INFO
No controller
I have a duemilanove

WHAT I WANT TO KNOW
How do I hook this up.

I found this post: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=123045

I have that exact glcd.
What exactly do I have to do to get it set up like the post below says.

Alright my mistake. The circuit right now is extremely simple. THe negative voltage is generated, well, simply by some old wall transformer things so, not much to it there. I am using a Pic Microprocessor (18F4550 @ 48Mhz) to do the Frame, Load, and CPX clocks. The source code is really simple. Now, I have also an asm version but I didn't really put much effort to it, but it will have the timings down more to the exact specs. Simply each of the control wires goes to one of the PORTA i/o's on the microprocessor. The data lines are just sitting randomly on the breadboard and I just stick it in the 5v or 0v rails attempting to see the lines down the display. This afternoon i'll get a pic, but its really simple setup. I hope that covered the general important parts I forgot.

Code:

#include <p18f4550.h>
#pragma config PLLDIV=5, CPUDIV=OSC1_PLL2, USBDIV=1, FOSC=HSPLL_HS, FCMEM=OFF
#pragma config MCLRE=OFF, LVP=OFF, PWRT=ON, BOR=OFF, WDT=OFF, PBADEN=OFF

#define LCD_CPX LATA0
#define LCD_FRAME LATA1
#define LCD_LOAD LATA2



void main()
{
unsigned char seg, line;

ADCON1 = 0x0F;
CMCON = 0x07;
TRISA = 0;
TRISB = 0;

while(1)
{
LATAbits.LCD_FRAME = 1;

for(line=0; line<200; line++)
{
for(seg=0; seg<160; seg++)
{
LATAbits.LCD_CPX = 1;
Nop();
LATAbits.LCD_CPX = 0;
Nop();
}

LATAbits.LCD_FRAME = 0;
LATAbits.LCD_LOAD = 1;
Nop();
LATAbits.LCD_LOAD = 0;
Nop();
}
}
}