Re: Re-using IR Decoder Chip

[AZ Woody <reply@here>]

Won't you need "the cpu" to translate what's decoded and convert it to
serial anyway?

Help me folks..  the was an old cartoonist who used to draw cartoons of
complex ways to do simple things?

Oh wait..  I got it I think..  "Rube Goldberg"?


Just Another Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:55:43 GMT, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)
> wrote in message <458ed001.730066593@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Just Another Joe <address@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Now to the meat of the question:  could the IR decoder chip in the VCR
>>> be used for this purpose, to provide some already-decoded information to
>>> a serial port (or a pin) on roZetta?  Given the make and model of the
>>> VCR, is there a way I could find out what IR decoder chip it uses and
>>> then find a spec. sheet on that chip?  Is this a workable idea?
>> No!
>
> Okay then, how about a purchased IR decoder chip, for example for a NEC
> protocol?  They should be fairly cheap.  That should ease the load on
> the cpu.
>