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The Undead Remote

The mutant offspring of a shake flashlight and a universal remote.

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This energy harvesting device has a built-in use model. When your remote isn't working, isn't it instinctual to shake it to try to prompt a response? With this remote, that instinct brings results. I have ripped the guts out of a shake flashlight and crudely glued them into the back of a universal remote. This project was completed in an afternoon.

This project addresses dead batteries.  Of all of the televisions in the world, how many have remotes?  Of those remotes, how many require batteries?  Of all of those batteries, how often do they need replacing?  Then consider:  what is the cost, financially and environmentally, of replacing those batteries?

This project solves these problems by providing a remote that does not require batteries and doesn't change how we already interact with our remotes; what is more, it capitalizes on our frustrated instinct to shake our non-responsive remote, hoping this will bring our remotes back to life.

Rather than choosing an existing open hardware license I am electing to the maximum extent possible to refuse ownership and make no attempt to enforce any rights or privileges that may exist for this design. Information should be free!

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  • 1
    The lucky couple: a clearanced universal remote and a shake flashlight.
  • 2
    Extract the guts.
  • 3
    Chop the superficial bits from the top of the shake coil assembly to fit the remote casing.

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