Clever way of turning it around, but i find it just easier using a REAL cellphone with IR and a suitable app seems realistic too.. only bottleneck tho is the range.

Someone with better google or EE skills then me should go off and find out how to make a tv-b-gone instead.

Wow.. or you could have just put it in your pocket.

mirror:
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sorry folks, my server is getting pounded! try the link above.

thanks for the response, folks!

#7 My son has a fake phone that looks like an old motorola star-tac and it has a realistic screen similar to this one.

Or you could simply remote-mount the actual IR Emitter LED in a hat or something, connected by fine wires to the unit or a remotely mounted switch) in one’s pocket.

Or build it to automatically operate every so often and leave it in range of the TVs at a store, turning all the sets off and on, or turning them off after they’ve been reset.

Screw that one-time stuff man, you wanna change someone’s day at the store?

muhahahaha

so… he just dremeled the case and put in something he bought?… wow.

i don’t want to detract from the idea though, it is a good thing to turn off the TV sometimes (unless M*A*S*H is on), but i think this is ome of the things that should go in hackaday links section, or maybe the new lazy thing (which is a great idea, mine fits inside my pen, with the on/off switch connected to the opener of the pen, total stealth)

Just an idea… Someone should try using the TV remote with the $1 IR Port hack that was posted a week or so ago and find out the signals it emits. Then the true rebels could make their own TV remote. [Evil Laugh]

#4 I realize that but I would like a more realistic look.

Also it would be cool to actually have a working cell phone that could do this with a key seq

blah i figured out where the negative and postive are, but i dont see a way to add a switch w/o scraping the shiit out of the pcb, argh i dont wnat to do a lot of work.

hey spy…the way i’m rigging my reset button is thus:
- take out the 2 batteries on the top of the unit
- solder wires to the battery contacts on the board, one + one -
- sandwich the batteries together (elec. tape or whathaveyou) and connect them to the wires you soldered to the board.
- put the switch somewhere inline so it *interrupts* the flow of electricity from the batteries to the device.

i made one out of a universal remote and some other things i got at radioshack (i work there) and assembled it in the back room during my break, and it’s so awesome, it rawks my face off.

does anyone know how to terminate cell phone signals of those people who use cell phones in the theater, checkout lines, and talk loud so everyone can hear?

#2 , with a cell phone jammer

Was wondering why there is no correct link to the phone hack anymore ,I no it is years old but nowhere else on the web has a good tutorial or visual and I was just needing some help cus I have an old phone but dnt no how to fix it up for my tv b gone or just use a dummy phone and even then how to consrtuct everything

Help wud be appreciated

This is a very old article, but the idea is great! It is very difficult to use the traditional TV-B-GONE remote device in somewhere busy and public…such as a Delta airport lounge. ;) Or at BestBuy as some of the other comments mention. I have always been scared to try it at BestBuy because of the IR-sensitive security cameras, and the awkwardness of holding the standard TV-B-GONE unit and pointing it at the wall of TVs.

My son and I just had this idea (to put the TV-B-GONE circuit in a cell phone) and Googled it and found this article. The genius of putting the TV-B-GONE circuit into a small defunct cell phone is that you can stand wherever you want and simply push the KILL button, and NOBODY will every suspect that the reason the golf game just went black is because of the geek talking on the cell phone!

In our design, the LEDs will be on the right side of the phone as you look at th screen, so when I hold it in my left hand against my head, the LEDs are pointing right at the TV as I look at it. The KILL button will be flush mounted in the back of the phone so I can hold the phone with my index finger on the button…a very natural way that people hold cell phones.

Mitch A. (the guy who invented TV-B-GONE) is a genius! And I know him personally so I know. ;)