TV B-Gone from AdaFruit

[MarkHaysHarris777]

So, I built this gizmo called "Super TV-B-Gone," which is an ATMEL micro controller programmed with ALL (98%) of the power codes of most TVs sold in the U.S.; you can read about it here.

While I drank my coffee this morning I powered of the TVs at MacDonalds; then drove down the street and powered off the TV at Burger King...

... decided to head over to BestBuy... you knew that was coming; yup, they all went off (from more than 100 ft away), and then a funny thing happened. They all came back on in 10 seconds. Seems BestBuy has an anti-missile-missile; they have a device that sends out the power-on codes every ten seconds. :-))


Cheers,
marcus