Google Assistant smart speakers often only serve a couple of key purposes – to accept commands and play music. With Xiaomi’s new Google Assistant smart speaker, you also get the power to control your ...

Your remote can stay buried in the couch.

An ATmega8 was used to build this circuit which can be used to control the DC motor found on toy car wheels with gears through IR remote control. For controlling the speed, forward and reverse ...

Many devices use infrared (IR) as a signalling medium like, for example, RGB LED strip controllers modules and some TV controllers. Often times these signals aren’t meant for secure applications which ...

The main aim of this circuit is to design and demonstrate a simple 5 channel remote control system to drive five loads. The circuit works on the principle of IR communication. This article is aimed to ...

How is this not a thing? I don't want to launch your phone app every time the switch toggles. I don't need charts of my electricity consumption uploaded to the cloud. I don't care to invest $799 in ...

CRESSKILL, N.J., & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Olibra, makers of innovative devices for the smart home, today debuted their newest offering, the Bond, at CES 2017. The Bond is the first device to ...

Almost all semiconductor products are sensitive to light, but this feature has been especially optimized for photodetectors (photodiodes and phototransistors). These are employed to sense or measure ...

What can you do with an IR remote? How about anything? Maybe not. We’ll settle for issuing arbitrary commands and controlling tasks on our computer. The first step in [Fungus]’s hack is ...