Kodak Carousel slide-projector - remote-control?
An ancient friend has an equally-ancient Kodak "Carousel" 35mm slide-projector and around 50 carousels loaded with slides, dating from his time as a Professor of Architecture.
The projector still seems to work - and there's a box of several new replacement bulbs - but the hand-held bit of the remote-control has been lost somewhere over the years.
The 'receiver' for the projector-end is a small black oblong box with a transparent window on the front, and a short flylead with a DIN-plug on the end, which plugs into the projector.
Does anyone know anything about how this works? I'm assuming the link is infra-red (it allegedly provided next-slide/last-slide buttons and a focus control).
My hope is that I can somehow lash-up a simple box-with-buttons-on-a-wire for him and plug it into the DIN-socket on the projector, rather than trying to divine the particular IR wavelength used and encoding-method.
[It's not helped by him being 400 miles away].
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