have 2 ir recievers from my wall-e project. Looking to make a cheap/nearly free home base ir reciever.

Could they be hacked up to work with the ez-b and my laptop(and extention cables from my laptop)?
Could anyone point me towards a post similar to this?
I dont think that board will work,that is a serial board made for communication,not for sending beacon signals
ok ill try to find a tranciever that could work like that.