For "send" transmissions, I have had success "bit-banging" SIR at 19200bps
to both my palm-pilot and to a laptop.  No 38kHz modulation needed.  It was
a bit of a pain finding something to receive on my palm--Pocketerm II worked
best, but the laptop was much simpler.

I'm not at all clear on the best way to receive SIR though.  I assume that
there's a bunch of signal conditioning needed to detect spikes in
IR--perhaps someone in [ee] could help us with that.

The IrDa transceiver modules seem to cost several dollars;  has anyone else
used these with a PIC?

Jason Neudorf

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