Arduino IR Receiver Project

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I want to make an IR receiver project with my Arduino and wanted to get some basic information before I started. I'm planning on using an Apple Remote as the IR Transmitter, writing a program to see how the signals differ for each button press, and then using those to make my project.

If I were to use this receiver from RadioShack: 38kHz Infrared (IR) Receiver Module Model: 276-640 | Catalog #: 276-640 - Sorry it won't let me post links.

would I be able to get it working fairly easily using other already posted support requests. In other words, as long as I have the right receiver, the code should be fairly simple, correct?

Thanks!

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That Radio Shack part should work fine. It is very similar to the one we have mounted on our Gadget Shield, which I will suggest to you as an alternative to rolling your own hardware. We also have sample code that demonstrates how to use this IR logic module to decode IR transmissions (regardless of protocol) and then retransmit them again using the IR LED on the shield:

http://ruggedcircuits.com/AS010/irdecoder.pde

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