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Might be worth looking into FLIRC USB
Random fun fact: back in college, my girlfriend's best friend (and my best friend's girlfriend) was named Elisa. This being the early 2000s, I used an old school flip phone that had T9 for text entry. But "Elisa" wasn't in the T9 dictionary, so I would hit 3-5-4-7 and it would prompt "Elis"—presumably expecting an "e" after—but once I hit that last 2, it would change to "flirc."
It's interesting that that's actually become a thing now.
I bought one of these a while back but could never get it working. Skill issue probably 😅 I'll try it out again!
I used one for a work project. They are pretty nice for a spite project lol