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                 audioguru 
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                       Posted - Jun 15 2010 :  3:43:21 PM
                        
                        
                      
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                      |  Modern IR remote controls use coded pulses. A TSOP IR receiver produces the coded pulses at its output. A micro-controller with suitable software can decode the pulses into useful control signals. | 
                     
                    
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