“With great power comes great responsibility…”
The TV-b-gone is a simple project for anyone with basic electronic soldering skills (and a soldering iron suitable for electronic work … NOT a soldering gun). Running off two AA batteries, it’s a small electronic device which transmits a lot of infra-red power codes. Enough, in fact, to switch off virtually any model of TV you might encounter! This will either make you into a super-villain or a super-hero. Please, use your new-found power to improve society rather than just annoying people!
This open-source kit was originally developed by Adafruit Industries in collaboration with Cornfield Electronics. Don’t forget to check out the other great kits and goodies that Adafruit offers.
Note: Unlike Adafruit’s kits, ours are running the latest version 2 firmware. Nobody else is offering these yet!
The Builder’s Guide is here and the User Guide is here … Enjoy!
Hi,
Is there a firmware hex download available for version 2 of the TV-B-Gone?
Thanks.
Indeed there is. You will find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbgone/
Please note that there is a very minor hardware mod required to run v2 s/w on v1 hardware. Check out the image (also on sourceforge) to see what’s involved. It will take you all of two minutes.
Enjoy!!
Thank you for the quick reply!
Ehh, I won’t need to do any modifications, I’m probably going to build it from scratch. Thanks again
Good plan. Have a look at this one …
http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=35575&p=175895