Luc
October 13th, 2002, 01:55 PM
There is only one completely new design in progress now: the PS2 UIRT.
Several adaptations have been made to Ruud's original "old" UIRT wich had one major disadvantage: the power derived from the serial port regulary caused problems. Changes to the hardware with external power and more emitter power. Both Jon and Danjiel improved the PIC firmware but a major step forward was the firmware by Jon wich had a lot of new features. You can build your own circuit based on Jon's schematic and include just what you need.
My hardware design is made to fully use all these possibilities and I've tried to make it as flexible as possible. Only the schematic and hardware are new.
I know some people already build one based on this schematic, others are busy. We all wait on the first results, I can only test on a few PC's and remotes but I don't expect major problems.
I can't comment on the quality of the IR part of the different firmware or plugins but only Jon's has the extra outputs, input and possibility of "stand alone" operation.
About the website: I am an electronics engineer and not a programmer but have tried to publish what I did and it's still growing (just added some new versions and files).
And the best news is that PGPfan will make a nice one..... :wink:
Several adaptations have been made to Ruud's original "old" UIRT wich had one major disadvantage: the power derived from the serial port regulary caused problems. Changes to the hardware with external power and more emitter power. Both Jon and Danjiel improved the PIC firmware but a major step forward was the firmware by Jon wich had a lot of new features. You can build your own circuit based on Jon's schematic and include just what you need.
My hardware design is made to fully use all these possibilities and I've tried to make it as flexible as possible. Only the schematic and hardware are new.
I know some people already build one based on this schematic, others are busy. We all wait on the first results, I can only test on a few PC's and remotes but I don't expect major problems.
I can't comment on the quality of the IR part of the different firmware or plugins but only Jon's has the extra outputs, input and possibility of "stand alone" operation.
About the website: I am an electronics engineer and not a programmer but have tried to publish what I did and it's still growing (just added some new versions and files).
And the best news is that PGPfan will make a nice one..... :wink: