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Mar
27

New Project: DIY Hacks & How To’s: Remote Control with an Arduino

appliance, arduino, DIY Hacks and How Tos, diyhacksandhowtos, Electronics, Infrared, IR, Jason Poel Smith, remote control, television, Tv Comments Off on New Project: DIY Hacks & How To’s: Remote Control with an Arduino 

IMG_1766Most of the buttons on a remote control are never used. So why not use them to control appliances and other electronics around your house. In this project, I am going to show you how to use an Arduino to decode the signal from your remote and use it to […]

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Jul
09

Weekend Projects – TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer

arduino, Electronics, GreatCreate, RadioShack, television, Weekend Projects Comments Off on Weekend Projects – TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer 

m35_universalsleeptimer_materials-01Combine an Arduino, infrared LEDs, and the open-source TV-B-Gone library to build a universal sleep-timer remote for any TV. For those layovers in motels on long road trips or for those who frequently fall asleep in front of the television, rest assured that your TV will be OFF when you awake, thanks to the TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer. Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at http://makezine.com/projects/tv-go-sleep-universal-timer/

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Jun
28

The TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer & the Return of Weekend Projects!

arduino, Electronics, GreatCreate, RadioShack, television, Weekend Projects Comments Off on The TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer & the Return of Weekend Projects! 

m35_universalsleeptimer_materials-01Welcome back to Weekend Projects! This year we have lined up 20 more beginner-friendly electronics projects that you can begin and build in a weekend. We start off with the TV-Go-Sleep Universal TV Timer, a novel twist on the classic TV-B-Gone kit, that turns an Arduino into a countdown sleep-timer remote.

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Feb
11

Automatic volume control puts the kibosh on loud TV commercials

arduino hacks, commercial, home entertainment hacks, television, Tv, volume Comments Off on Automatic volume control puts the kibosh on loud TV commercials 

automatic-tv-volume-control

If you’re having a hard time tuning out those loud commercials why not let your electronics project do it for you? This is an Arduino-based setup which adjusts television volume when it goes above a certain threshold. It uses a microphone, rather than a direct audio signal, so you can set it based on what is actually heard in the room.

The control scheme uses the IR LED and IR receiver seen on the breadboarded circuit above. The receiver lets you teach your volume up and down buttons from your remote control to the system. The one failing we see in the design is that the volume level is hard-coded, requiring you to flash new code to make adjustments (perhaps an enterprising reader could add a potentiometer for making easy adjustments?).

We can’t help but be reminded of the setup which reads the closed caption info to mute topics you’ve added to a blacklist.


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