With the latest talk about PICs and IR communication (Sony CTRL-S in
particular), I would suggest that you take a look at the MIT Media Lab
iRX 2.0 board, which looks like a very sensible board for several PIC
applications. This might be an old project for all I know, but I can't
recall that it has been mentioned on the PIC list lately and the docs
have been updated only a few weeks ago. Schematics, documentation,
PCB layout and software is found at:

        http://ttt.media.mit.edu/pia/Research/iRX2/index.html

Nice to se that the MIT guys are not married to the Motorola chips :-)

Regards,


Bob (tm)