The TV-B-Gone is a well known piece of kit in hacker circles: just point it at a noisy TV in a public space, hit the button, and one of the hundreds of IR remote codes for “Power Off” that it blinks ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

Some readers may recall building a line-following robot during their school days. Involving some IR LEDs, perhaps a bit of LEGO, and plenty of trial-and-error, it was fun on a tiny scale. Now imagine ...

Cambridge, UK -- July 11, 2022 -- Agile Analog™, the analog IP innovators, has designed an IR Drop Sensor for its growing library of analog IP. This is an important safety feature for designers as it ...

Agile Analog has added a customizable IR drop sensor to its IP library, providing chip designers with real-time monitoring of voltage drops. These drops can be caused by power supply fluctuations, hot ...

There may be an actual hardware reason why Siri will never come to older Apple hardware. The iPhone 4S, iFixit discovered, has an IR sensor to let Siri know that you have held it up to your face. And ...