When I was in high school, my school had really fast internet, and my house had really slow internet, so I wanted to build a relay of infrared lasers between my house and school.

I haven't figured out how to do that yet, though I am a few steps closer. Now I have plenty fast 4G everywhere I go.

I guess the moral of the story is if enough people want the same problem solved, someone else will probably do the work.

You're not alone, I did the exact same thing. I clicked the link trying to figure out what IR was being used for, exactly, at a (public) library. :)

I think a better way to word it would be "Library for sending ..." but none-the-less, I wasn't disappointed on clicking it. I've been thinking about a few things I wanted to do with my home theater setup to be able to hide the components[0] which also allows me to control it via WiFi, as well as its existing remote which I'd further like to alter the commands of -- map one of the 300 buttons so that it triggers something different/sends a different command to the devices than what it received from the remote.

I had something setup that basically did each of these things, in the past, when I had a whole HTPC in the living room. That's gone in favor of Roku/Plex/Xbox (for less noise than my HTPC was putting out, or no noise in the case of Roku) and I've

[0] That's trivial to do on the cheap with off-the-shelf things.

I honestly have a hard time seeing how you could confuse that, but maybe I'm biased because I've seen this terminology forever.