Re: new? home-brew USB IR receiver/transmitter

[Roland M. <rm...@gm...>]

> receiver chip and a sender diode to a ready-built cable from FTDI (FTDI 
> TTL-232R-3V3) and off you go (no extra components needed)! During 
> transmission the FTDI is put in 'bitbang' mode which has little to do 
> with classic uart. Using bitbang mode it's possible to generate the 
> carrier frequency directly.

you can get cheap 232R-3.3V cabels on ebay, just look for very old nokia data cables, but most of them are PL2303 based. Is the "bitbang" mode FTDI specific, or is this a general operation mode for USB <-> RS 232 converter?

Roland
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