{"id":9061,"date":"2007-11-03T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/tv-b-gone\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:14","slug":"tv-b-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/tv-b-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"TV-B-Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9770-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9770-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0><\/a>Danielle&#8217;s TV-B-Gone<br \/>(Click for <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_9770-scaled.jpg\">full res photo<\/a>&#8230;)<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I helped Danielle put together her first electronics kit, one of Limor Fried&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/tvbgone\/\">open-source TV-B-Gone kits<\/a>. She&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>Well, it at least turns off my TV almost instantly&#8230; I imagine that it&#8217;ll work pretty well on whatever other ones. At $20 it&#8217;s a good, and useful first kit&#8230; Imagine actually being able to turn off all those annoying TVs in places like the doctor&#8217;s office waiting room, school hallways, and (hopefully) the advertising things on gas pumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle&#8217;s TV-B-Gone(Click for full res photo&#8230;) Tonight I helped Danielle put together her first electronics kit, one of Limor Fried&#8217;s open-source TV-B-Gone kits. She&#8217;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\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24654,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/24654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}