"Wireless I-PAC" hack

I take a cheap RF Wireless Transmitter/Receiver set from a crappy Chinese RC Car and hook it up via a Hex inverter to an I-PAC.

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(An I-PAC is basically a USB device that converts closing a switch to a keypress)
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The RF Transmitter is SO CRAPPY that instead of potentiometers it just uses switches that have springs and masquerade as variable. Kind of ingenious actually.

So I hooked the receiver up to the I-PAC even getting power from it, and put a hex inverter on the buttons, the logic was somehow backwards (some weird voltage thing). I was originally going to use relays, but the voltage coming out of the receiver switches appeared to be too low to trigger the ones I had.

Soooo with the hex inverter I was getting multiple key presses from the ipac, but they were distinct for each button. I then had to take all that stuff and make some actionscript to convert it to separate button presses (all I want to do is trigger some samples in the end).

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• I-PAC
• hack
• RF
• Radio
• waves
• Flash
• Actionscript
• 2.0
• 3.0
• Wireless
• buttons
• switches
• electronics

[techtalk29]

What dis he say?

[fatcatband]

coooooooooooool