Il potere del Telecomando The power of the Remote

Davide Gomba, @vongombenArduino DAY 2014, Rome,

#arduinod14

This is a very simple lesson I've done in Rome during the Arduino day on March 29th, 2014. The Cover of this lesson is an italian comic I've been reading in my teenage. It's called “X Zone” (Zona X, in italian) and is a side publication of “Martin Mystére, the Impossible's Detective”. The comic book has been written by Alfredo Castelli and drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini, edited in italy by Sergio Bonelli. The link to the publication is not just a title matching my presentation but means a lot to me: most of the concepts, metaphors and ideas I've faced by reading this comic book are present in my daily thoughts today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mystèrehttp://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_X

Television RemotesSource: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Remote_controls.JPG

Source: http://funny-lists.com/Toys/Kids%20Toys/Non%20RC%20Toys/78%20Laser%20Gun/78-Laser-Gun-a.jpgLudic Uses

Robert Adler + Eugene Polley, Zenith, 1956

TV-B-Gone https://cornfieldelectronics.com/tvbgone/tvbg.home.php

Wave Bubble – Limor Fried Thesis

http://phys.org/news/2013-01-near-infrared-glasses-thwart-recognition.html

Privacy Visor

http://ahprojects.com/projects/camoflash/

Anti-Paparazzi

IR LED normally emits at 940 nanometers, invisible to the human eye

“In the 1980s Steve Wozniak of Apple started a company named CL 9. The purpose of this company was to create a remote control that could operate multiple electronic devices. The CORE unit (Controller Of Remote Equipment) was introduced in the fall of 1987. The advantage to this remote controller was that it could “learn” remote signals from different devices. It had the ability to perform specific or multiple functions at various times with its built-in clock. It was the first remote control that could be linked to a computer and loaded with updated software code as needed.”

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control

We are going to do it, Woz!

Listen and Reproduce some device protocol's

Ken Shirrif – Irremote Library

http://www.righto.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html

https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote

Source: http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/index.phpHow Does IR communication work (1)

Source: http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/index.phpHow Does IR communication work (2), RC-5 example

Open the very basic example of the library

Links: http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/index.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_controlhttp://electronics.howstuffworks.com/remote-control2.htm