Product Description

The Irdroino IrDA shield is a shield for Arduino that will allow you to communicate with IrDA compiant equipment such as devices that support IrDA SIR communication up to 115200 bps (Power Meters, PDAs , data acquisition devices and other devices that communicate via IrDA SIR ).

Features:

• – Compatible with Arduino UNO board layouts
• – Supports with IrDA® Physical Layer Specification (version 1.3)
• – High quality infrared transceiver
• – Up to *2 meters IrDA SIR communication
• – Supports baud rates from 9600 – 115200 bps
• – Demo code that demostrates how to communicate with the Shield

Example Usage:

• – Interfacing with irDA power meters
• – Interfacing with irDA printers
• – Interfacing with irDA PDAs
• – Data communication between two Raspberry Pi’s
• – Any other devices that communicate via irDA SIR

Package contains:

• – 1x Irdroino IrDA shield

The Irdroino IrDA shield comes pre-configured for 9600 bps serial IrDA communication. The baud rate can be configured by using the on board switch (which switches the IrDA controller in command mode) and sending a hex commands representing the other baud rates for the MCP2120 serial IrDA controller.

*  The range depends on the other irDA communication device capabilities, but in general it is about 2 meters

Product Video

Downloads

• – Irdroino IrDA Shield design files
• – Irdroino IrDA Shield schematic in PDF
• – Example Arduino sketch that send “Hello irDA” over the IRDA link every 2 seconds