TV-B-Gone for the Arduino

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13 points·mnemonik··7 comments

Neat-o. This would be an appropriate platform for a time-delay repeating or remote-controlled TV-B-Gone. I've thought about how I could mod my original TV-B-Gone to do that.

I really like my TV-B-Gone. I've given several of them as birthday presents to the children of friends. They appeal to the ten-year-old boy sense of mischievousness while subtly conveying the idea that mindless television is a bad thing.

But yet dictating to others in public how they should be entertained is a good thing?

You make a good point. But having televisions running all of the time in a room already IS dictating to everyone present what they have to pay attention to. It's a little like cigarette smoking - if everyone (or the vast majority) of people in a room are smoking or watching a TV then I would just put up with it or leave the room. But if I'm in there by myself or with a few other people who aren't watching the TV, e.g. a car dealership waiting room, as happened recently, the TV-B-Gone is rather handy.

My TV-B-Gone kit just arrived in the mail. Ladyada rocks.

what's also neat is making "glasses" that display all tv's as off by refreshing at the appropriate rate.

I don't get it.

LCD glasses that flicker transparent and opaque directly out of phase with the TV signal, so you only see the TV at times when it is between screen refreshes.

Not gonna work on LCD screens, methinks.

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