[PLUG] Open Source TV-B-Gone?

Sean Harbour sean at harbours.us
Wed Apr 27 02:06:02 UTC 2005


On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:19:07 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> > If there is some ambitious person on this list who is as annoyed with
> > gratuitous TV bombardment as I am, please consider designing an open source
> > program for Linux laptops that does the same thing as TV B-Gone. It could
> > go one step further - there are only so many kinds of television sets in a
> > given airport, so after some experimentation and community feedback, your
> > could emit just the subset of codes that worked in a particular place. So
> > you could type "tvoff phoenix" or "tvoff logan" and get nearly instant
> > response.
> 
> Keith,
> 
>    How about a variant that turns off the "WHEEL ... OF ... FORTUNE!!!" and other
> annoying electronic noise from the slot machines all over the Reno airport's
> terminals?

You need some sort of innocent looking high powered wide angle infra red emitter that could be run from a USB port. People would get suspicious of a guy with ponytails pointing his laptop at every annoying device in the place just before they shut down. :-)

Sean Harbour





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