Got my Arduino kit

I always wanted to try out microcontroller based programming. I did not have eduction in that area, due to which I was a bit skeptical about my ability to use it.

After too much searching about arduino (which did not help in deciding which board to buy), 2 months back I bought Leonardo.

As a normal programmer, wrote Hello World program. Over here it was to turn LED on and off :)

Next plan was to use it as remote, to control my Nikon D60 DSLR camera.

The main hurdle was to find out exact protocol used for IR. I found couple of posts about it. It was time to tryout actual code. Instead of purchasing another IR, removed IR LED from old lying CD drive remote control.

Here is the post which helped me .

The interval between two clicks was hardcoded. Next task is to make that interval configurable.

Part list for next step:

1. 16 X 2 LCD display.
2. 2 two pin switches to control interval (up & down)
3. 1 two pin switch to start / stop 
4. Breadboard (Forgot to purchase it with arduino board)