Arduino sketch which decodes infrared remote pulses and prints them out to the serial port. The output format shows the total number of pulses and the actual pulses in a on, off, on.. style. e.g. & ...

The Arduino uses a shift register to interact with the keyboard’s 8×10 matrix, and the sketch translates any serial data it receives into the keypresses the clone is expecting.

The beacon is just a simple ATtiny13 that flashes a message with an invisible IR LED. To receive the messages, [Kurt] made a scavenger decoder shield for an Arduino.