Accessibility IR-remote

A friend of mine, who works with disabled people, contacted me to make an enclosure for a IR-remote. Her boyfriend had made the arduino sketch and sourced the parts, but they needed something to mount it.

It took 3 iterations to design this thing:

• IR led had to be pointing exactly the right way
• The device had to be attached to the radio (the client kept moving it)
• Power button and volume knob of original radio had to be useable.

I had to add an attachment to the cassette deck, so the remotebox could be secured. It works like a charm. If a version 4 would be needed (currently not - client is happy), I would like to rewrite the arduino sketch and go for more big buttons (power knob, radio preset(s), ...), although that slightly reeks like overengineering. :-)