William "Chops" Westfield <westfw <at> mac.com> writes:

> entire remote control airplane things weight less than a gram.

There are SMT packaged IR receivers, as small as a SOIC PIC. Example:

  http://www.vishay.com/company/press/releases/2002/020513opt/

There are also ones from Sharp and from Mitsumi I think. Mouser carries some:

  http://www.mouser.com/search/refine.aspx?Msid=61370000&Mkw=infrared

good luck,

Peter P.


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