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gwatts@fnal.fnal.gov (Gordon Watts) wrote:
|     Steve Ceaircea (damm, no clue how to spell it) did something very
|   similar to this many years ago in BYTE (he wrote the electronics column --
|   I must be showing my age).  One might be able to steal much of the
|   hardward design from there, and with a standard UART...
|   
|     Interfacing to the ADB isn't difficult -- it is pretty much a basic
|   serial comm line -- I think you can do it with a UART.  Unfortunately, it
|   is beyond my hardware capabilities (I have enough trouble putting together
|   shift registers!).
|   
|     The software is a little tougher
|      - ADB driver
|      - Code to recognize the signals comming in (pattern matching...).
|      - User Interface code.
|   
|     The code is not beyond my capabilities (the hardest part, for me, would
|   be writing the ADB driver).

Mike Neil, in addition to being a very famous and rich and good-looking
Apple employee, wrote the fabulous IR-Man, a simple hardware hack to
receive remote-control signals across the sound-input port, and a software
extension to control mac behavior based on the signals.

The hack is detailed in "Late Night with Mac Hack", a pretty entertaining
book, all around.

Note: it's a hack. It might not work perfectly on new machines. Debug
before installing.

bc