<div dir="ltr">I love a microcontroller project as much as the next guy, but a serial based one provides little benefit, as there are serial IR blasters that someone can make with a diode, a resistor and a DB9 (much cheaper).<br>
If I were going to make a microcontroller based ir blaster, I would use this platform (or something similar)<br>
:<br><br><a href="http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/boards/lpc2148.php">http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/boards/lpc2148.php</a><br><br>-- <br>--Dave<br>
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