You should check out an episode we did earlier this summer, where we made a motion controlled power glove.
It used an infrared LED to send commands to the Xbox, basically acting like a remote.
You could do the same with your project - get a small microcontroller like the ATTINY, find some Arduino code to send IR codes, find the right codes for your remote, and then add this onto your Roku remote.
You should check out an episode we did earlier this summer, where we made a motion controlled power glove.
It used an infrared LED to send commands to the Xbox, basically acting like a remote.
You could do the same with your project - get a small microcontroller like the ATTINY, find some Arduino code to send IR codes, find the right codes for your remote, and then add this onto your Roku remote.
So Ben I went back and watched a few more of your episodes last night that I thought would help me with this. I was one of which was the turning the icade into a handheld mod for the iphone. Then it hit me that I don't need to start from scratch like you started with the icade. So i got out my box of electronics parts and found the crappy remote that came with the TV. I opened it up and looked and the real guys of it were not much larger then a quarter. So I looked to the Roku remote and it will totally fit. So I cut everything out and started working and got all the connections soldered all my connections so I can now touch two wires together to turn on/off power, controll volume and change inputs.
I now only need to make some holes in the Roku remote and take some of the buttons off the old remote and mount them inside. I will maybe make a video of my status when I get the buttons connected and then another with the finished project.
Thanks again for your cool show Ben it really inspires me to do cool stuff.
