[olug] [ot] where to buy ir blaster?

[Jennifer Frasier]

Thanks for the help! I will have to buy online. Fabricating one's own is a
great idea for someone who doesn't have four papers due this weekend and
still has to manage to start working on a final paper due in three weeks :)

Hope your mythbuntu project turns out well!

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Bill Eberly <imjustabill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > As far as I know, the guy who sells those makes them himself, so you
> > probably can't find them locally. I have ordered one of his IR
> > receivers in the past and had no problems with it or the service.
>
> Someone's also mentioned buying a dual blaster from'em.
>
> I believe schematics are available online... shouldn't be too hard to
> grab necessary parts from digikey/jameco and fabricate own... hell,
> maybe even sell/revshare with Jay @ RTU.... although I imagine the
> demand is about nil :).  Although these things have uses in the
> windows PVR world as well (i believe the free/opensource mce/myth like
> things can make use of them (ie: channel.exe)).... still probably
> nearly zero demand heh.
>
> Although, I imagine doing a blanket order of 10 or so would be more
> appropriate.
>
> Off topic, but this week has been brutal at work, I've not had time to
> fiddle with mythbuntu at home like planned :(
>
> -Will
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