TV-B-Gone

Danielle’s TV-B-Gone
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Tonight I helped Danielle put together her first electronics kit, one of Limor Fried’s open-source TV-B-Gone kits. She’s soldered a bunch of stuff before from when she briefly went to Kettering, but this is the first functional kit. And, of course, it works!

Well, it at least turns off my TV almost instantly… I imagine that it’ll work pretty well on whatever other ones. At $20 it’s a good, and useful first kit… Imagine actually being able to turn off all those annoying TVs in places like the doctor’s office waiting room, school hallways, and (hopefully) the advertising things on gas pumps.