I'm not good at all this stuff...
But I want to know how infrared works and can I get music and stuff through it?:confused:

Infrared is just a way of transferring data over a short range. Unlike systems like Bluetooth though, it is emitted in a 'beam' (a flashing LED sends the data in a binary fashion) instead of over a radiated wave, so you need to align the two devices with the infrared transmitter/receivers pointing toward each other.

Yes, you can get music and stuff through it, but only if the device sending it to you has this data on it and has the ability to send over infrared. (Something like a friend's mobile!)

Wikipedia (as always!) has a little bit of info on this subject;
Infrared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hope this helps a little!

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Originally Posted by iAMfromHuntersBar

Infrared is just a way of transferring data over a short range. Unlike systems like Bluetooth though, it is emitted in a 'beam' (a flashing LED sends the data in a binary fashion) instead of over a radiated wave, so you need to align the two devices with the infrared transmitter/receivers pointing toward each other.

Yes, you can get music and stuff through it, but only if the device sending it to you has this data on it and has the ability to send over infrared. (Something like a friend's mobile!)

Wikipedia (as always!) has a little bit of info on this subject;
Infrared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hope this helps a little!

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Thanks for that.
It really helped keep up the work :)

A very simple example of IR Communication is your TV's remote control. It's usually modulated on a 40 Khz Carrier.

I'm not sure of the data rate or method of modulation for IR communication between computing devices, but the devices usually have to be quite close together.

IR is light you cannot see. It's the same form of invisabile light found in an IR heat lamp, but at very low power levels.

I had a pair of IR headphone. Very useless, because of the line of sight requirement.