How to build a simple but cool IR (Infra Red) receiver.

Tools

These are the tools you should use to build the IR receiver.
[-] Tweesers are really needed to bend the wires in such a precise way to fit exactly inside the serial box:

Tweesers

[-] A good wire cutter is very recommended to have a fast and accurate cut of the pins:

Wire cutter

[-] A cross screwdriver to close the Sub-D box:

Cross Screwdriver

[-] You want to solder the components together :)

Solder

[-] And tin, of course.

Tin