A 20-second hack for until you get it built's to make an extended "slap
plate" for the mute button (IMO the most frequently used button on a TV
remote!)  The ex-GF used that a lot, was very handy for her;  I used a
piece off a broken CD case, wire tied it onto the base of the remote,
the "hub" section can be cut to just hit the mute switch.

(Still hardware/software problems here, will get a new machine up soon,
just problems getting drivers to work...)

  Mark

Chaipi Wijnbergen wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> A couple of years ago I built a Remote Control unit that was able to learn
> any given remote control for any device and then reproduce this by commands
> either from the PC or a stored time/command configuration, this was done
> with a PIC.
>
> I was thinking that I would integrate it with a voice recognition module
> and do exactly what you are trying to do and thought of the same market
> share that you are developing for. After some marketing research that I
> did, I decided not to continue with this project. But, the idea is still
> nice and I hope that someday someone would do this and disabled people
> could enjoy it.
>
> Chaipi
>
> At 12:36 01/03/00 +0000, Andy Bassam wrote:
> >hi,
> >as a part of my final year project I am building for disabled people. I
> >need to control television and telephone using PIC . any
> >suggestions welcome
>
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