Data & Observations
So after a week of waiting to get the pyro rf receiver built after finishing the simple rf transmitter first, we can finally put the transmitter and receiver pair together and see how well they work. The video below demonstrates the transmitter/receiver pair in action, showing its morse-code like transmitting ability.
Now you should be 100% convinced that the wireless system created in these two articles does infact work and achieve our goal of turning on an LED wirelessly like a switch. In fact the LED is actually being toggled on and off very quickly due to the square wave the 555 timer is sending to it and it's so fast our eyes can't tell the difference and it creates a bit of an illusion here. However, we could easily modify this squarewave into a slower raw DC on/off signal if we needed to.
So after a week of waiting to get the pyro rf receiver built after finishing the simple rf transmitter first, we can finally put the transmitter and receiver pair together and see how well they work. The video below demonstrates the transmitter/receiver pair in action, showing its morse-code like transmitting ability.
Now you should be 100% convinced that the wireless system created in these two articles does infact work and achieve our goal of turning on an LED wirelessly like a switch. In fact the LED is actually being toggled on and off very quickly due to the square wave the 555 timer is sending to it and it's so fast our eyes can't tell the difference and it creates a bit of an illusion here. However, we could easily modify this squarewave into a slower raw DC on/off signal if we needed to.