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Universal remotes are great but often rather pricey. If you want to make your own, Make shows you how to use an Arduino Yun to make a smart remote control you can control from any web browser.

Our daily lives are now invaded by connected objects, smart appliances and other gadgets of varying degrees of usefulness.