[Noisebridge-discuss] Arduino based TV-B-Gone (was: Re: Ready to restart Arduino Thursdays at Noisebridge)

[Michael Shiloh]

I, for one, would be extremeley interested in the source code for this. 
Is it distributed under some sort of open license?

On 10/04/2010 08:24 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:
> While on my most recent workshop tour (Eastern Europe and Belgium
> hackerspaces and hacker conferences) someone asked if I could do a
> workshop on TV-B-Gone on Arduino. I didn't even know someone had created
> an Arduino version of TV-B-Gone, but someone did. There were a few bugs
> in their setup which I fixed, and I bought all the parts so that 10
> people could make a TV-B-Gone from a Ladyada BoArduino kit.
>
> I'll be home all of October. If there's interest, I could lead a
> workshop for totaly newbies to solder together a BoArduino (learning to
> solder, if needed -- this is no problem for anyone!), and showing how
> the Arduino works enough to make it turn off TVs in public places from
> up to 50 meters away. We'll use solderless breadboards, which are a
> great tool to get to know so that you can quickly put projects together
> without needing solder (and if you like the results, you can then solder
> together a more permanent solution).
>
> Is there interest in such a workshop? It would probably be a 4- or
> 5-hour workshop. It could be in one night, or in two.
>
> Mitch.
>
>
> ------------------------
>  > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:58:02 -0700
>  > From: michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
>  > To: michael at michaelshiloh.com
>  > CC: Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>  > Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Ready to restart Arduino Thursdays
> at Noisebridge
>  >
>  > ARGH!
>  >
>  > I just realized that my Thursday evenings are booked for a couple of
> months.
>  >
>  > I'm going to rethink my schedule, but for the next couple of months if
>  > someone else wants to make this happen please do so.
>  >
>  > I'm trying to burn the candle on ends that don't exist.
>  >
>  > On 10/04/2010 07:53 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
>  > > Thanks for all the great feedback.
>  > >
>  > > I propose we start next week, and consider doing it every two weeks,
>  > > carefully skipping Five Minutes of Fame (3rd Thursdays).
>  > >
>  > > I'll add this to the calendar
>  > >
>  > > Michael
>  > >
>  > > On 10/04/2010 06:26 PM, rachel lyra hospodar wrote:
>  > >> I'm really interested in the jeenode board, which sure looks like
>  > >> arduino + zigbee communicator in one tidy package.
>  > >>
>  > >> On Oct 4, 2010 5:55 PM, "Daniel Garcia" <dgarcia at dgarcia.net
>  > >> <mailto:dgarcia at dgarcia.net>> wrote:
>  > >> > On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Michael Shiloh wrote:
>  > >> >> Me too! I have yet to do anything wireless, but am anxious to
> try. Do
>  > >> >> you have any modules?
>  > >> >
>  > >> > I have a pair of xbee modules, and the usb explorer and a fio
>  > >> (arduino w/xbee mountings) - but I got the series 1 models, which
> don't
>  > >> do mesh networking.
>  > >> >
>  > >> > So far, i've just been using it for wirelessly programming - which
>  > >> has been fun, but not what I got them for. Once I finish up my current
>  > >> project (an led clock) i'll probably go back to looking at using the
>  > >> xbees to talk to each other.
>  > >> >
>  > >> > I think if I want to play with mesh though, i'll have to go with the
>  > >> series 2.5.
>  > >> >
>  > >> > --Dg
>  > >> >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Sent from my ASR-33
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