Steve Yoshida is a systems engineer and worked on a project involving Arduino Micro and Infrared remote adapter:

My new Arduino sat on the shelf for a few weeks before I came up with a quick project that I wanted to use it for.  I use XBMC a lot on both PC and Raspberry Pi and wanted a quick way to get IR keyboard inputs from a remote.  I had used the IR library for Arduino in the past so I was already pretty familiar with the hardware and code involved.    What made the Arduino Micro ideal for this project was the keyboard emulation supported by the board and also its compact size…

Take a look at the complete post on his blog with more pics and the sketch.