i remember when remotes looked like that. we called them “clickers” because they clicked when you pressed a button
Palimpsest0 on
That is a very American artifact.
antesocial on
>The Space Command is a product of mechanical engineering rather than electrical. By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. Each button has a different length rod, thus a different high-frequency tone, which triggers a circuit connected to a microphone in the television to finish the command.
My God my grandparents had this. It had four metal rods inside and when you mashed the button (fairly hard actually) it seemed to activate a spring-loaded pin that would strike the rod and I guess send some audible signal to the TV which would make the channel selector rotate in either direction.
awhq on
I remember those!
Also, my uncle had a TV with a remote that you could change the channel by cupping your hands around a few coins and shaking them up and down. Something about the sound of the coins hitting each other made the channel change.
villings on
I need to know what people think of that glass display-box-thing
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i remember when remotes looked like that. we called them “clickers” because they clicked when you pressed a button
That is a very American artifact.
>The Space Command is a product of mechanical engineering rather than electrical. By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. Each button has a different length rod, thus a different high-frequency tone, which triggers a circuit connected to a microphone in the television to finish the command.
https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month
My God my grandparents had this. It had four metal rods inside and when you mashed the button (fairly hard actually) it seemed to activate a spring-loaded pin that would strike the rod and I guess send some audible signal to the TV which would make the channel selector rotate in either direction.
I remember those!
Also, my uncle had a TV with a remote that you could change the channel by cupping your hands around a few coins and shaking them up and down. Something about the sound of the coins hitting each other made the channel change.
I need to know what people think of that glass display-box-thing
any expert in the room?