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TV Remote Jammer!
by Kipkay on October 22, 2007

Table of Contents
intro: TV Remote Jammer! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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step 1: What you need... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

step 2: Install the circuit... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

step 3: Test it out! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

step 4: How Does it Work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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intro: TV Remote Jammer!

I've had a few scuffles in my house over the TV remote so I decided to do something about it. I built a circuit that will block my TV and any device I choose from getting a
signal from the normal remote control. I turn an ordinary remote into a jammer and the remote still works normally! Watch the video to see it work.

Video

step 1: What you need...

I chose to use a Sony remote control (SR-P30) because it has plenty of room inside to add my circuit and a 9 volt battery while keeping the remote fully functional.
The circuit parts:
1. Small circuit board
2. (1) 10k variable resistor
3. (1) 555 Timer
4. (4) resistors. 470ohm, 1k, 560ohm
5. (2) high speed switching diodes 1N4148
6. (1) transistor - BC557
7. (2) Infrared LED's
8. (2) 10nf capacitors
9. (1) 9 volt battery
Build the circuit based on the diagram below.

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step 2: Install the circuit...

I hot glued the circuit inside the remote control. I also had to remove 2 posts to make room for the 9 volt battery. Tape down the LED's near the existing LED. I used the
existing switch on the remote and wired my 9 volt battery to it.

Image Notes
1. I tapped into this switch for my power
2. The 2 new IR LED's taped down
3. Jammer circuit with 9 volt battery

step 3: Test it out!

You may have to tinker with the 10k pot to get the frequency right for the device you are targeting. Adjust the pot while the remote is 'on' and test it with the original
remote until the jammer confuses the device. Now, just pull out the remote whenever you need to take control of your device and no one will have any idea what's going
on. You can bring this to a friends house and drive them nuts! Have fun, be safe!

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Image Notes
1. 10k variable resistor needs to be adjusted to obtain the correct frequency.
2. Power switch wiring that goes to the remote switch

step 4: How Does it Work?

This is a pretty simple concept. When you press a button on a remote crontrol for a TV, stereo or other IR device, it creates a series of pulses which the receiver in the
target device; in this example, a TV, decodes into the corresponding function. This frequency is around 35-40kHz. To confuse the receiver, this jammer sends out a
steady stream of binary code (1's an 0's) at the same frequency, but contains no information to decode. The receiver basically sits there and does not respond at all and
the real information cannot get through to it as long as the jammer is on. Voila! You've 'jammed' your TV remote!

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Comments
50 comments Add Comment

ewilhelm says:

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Apr 1, 2008. 9:37 AM REPLY

This project was featured in Popular Mechanics Top 5 April Fools' Day Pranks!

Paladinsfo says:

Mar 28, 2009. 1:27 PM REPLY

You can get any of the parts you need through mouser electronics or Digi-key.

B.F.L.M says:

May 24, 2009. 2:30 PM REPLY

or Radio Shack

chickenlinux says:

Jul 22, 2009. 6:08 AM REPLY

When I go into Radio Shack, they have almost NO parts :( That might just be where I live though...

Meta1203 says:

Feb 20, 2009. 9:53 AM REPLY

Where can you get the curcit boards? And, to those who need parts, try mouserhttp://www.mouser.com. It has over 1.6 million parts.

chickenlinux says:

May 26, 2009. 6:07 PM REPLY

http://digikey.com is also excellent, but it's more for companies and stuff.

Redgerr says:

Jul 22, 2009. 5:15 AM REPLY

amazon allways has some parts ;)

joey9360 says:

Jun 18, 2009. 9:16 AM REPLY

will it work on infra-red cameras?

B.F.L.M says:

Jun 3, 2009. 4:15 PM REPLY

How do yo adjust the frequency??????

scarabeetle101 says:

May 31, 2009. 10:09 AM REPLY

If I just hook a couple of infra-red LEDs to a battery will that work?

ledzeppie says:

Oct 22, 2007. 10:24 PM REPLY

nice vid....ive always been worried about making one of these because i hear that they can in fact screw up some tvs. ive heard of people that had to buy
new tvs because they made one....id rather just take the batts out of the remote or unplug the tv and blackmail em with em.. sometimes when my sis has the
cable box remote ill jump and get the tv remote and put it on mute or just turn off the tv completely.... works 60 percent of the time

Kipkay says:

Oct 23, 2007. 5:52 AM REPLY

Oh crap, here we go again! Can't I do a single Instructable without someone claiming it is harmful, illegal, immoral or dangerous?? Next time I will do one
on how to watch paint dry. But then again you could hurt your eyes doing that. Geez!

shouldawoulda says:

Apr 27, 2009. 5:12 PM REPLY

Yhep! those are the type I am trying to remove from nieghbor hood right now,need something safe yet annoying ,know what I mean?

B.F.L.M says:
How do you type in superscript and subscript?
do you use html?
<s>hmmm</s>

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May 24, 2009. 2:27 PM REPLY

badrang4 says:

Oct 23, 2007. 12:25 PM REPLY

I hear ya budy

gdawg says:

Oct 23, 2007. 11:32 AM REPLY

OMG. I heard these things violate FCC rule 332.23.a64 part d, subsection F, paragraph 9. This is so illegal, I can't believe you do these things.
According to my research on the internets, this is very un-american, as only communists make these, and kittens die from exposure to the cancer
rays.
In seriousness: how does this jammer work? Is it basically so 'bright' that the receiver doesn't distinguish the IR signal from the real remote? Sorry, I
should go to your website; but at the same time I think an instructable should have more instructions on it, rather than a link to the instructions. This is
a cool device nonetheless.

James (pseudo-geek) says:

Oct 31, 2007. 6:30 PM REPLY

no. the sun ( and light bulbs) puts out enough infrared light to do that.....if it where a problem. the receiver is designed to block out ambient light,
and pick up only a certain frequency and signal.

JamesRPatrick says:

Oct 25, 2007. 7:36 PM REPLY

It's FCC rule 332.23.a64 part d, subsection F, paragraph 8. Duh.

Kipkay says:

Oct 25, 2007. 7:52 PM REPLY

Close. It's FCC rule 332.23.a64 part d, subsection F, paragraph 8a, article 5, section 6b.

JamesRPatrick says:

Oct 26, 2007. 1:56 PM REPLY

Hold on, let me check again...Damn, you're right.

duct tape says:

Nov 9, 2007. 8:38 PM REPLY

lol

VIRON says:

Oct 23, 2007. 10:09 PM REPLY

FCC does not have a rule about it...

Perhaps until someone hooks up a remote jammer to a million IRLEDs
and turns off all the TV's in the metropolitan area during the big game.

kingannoy says:

Oct 27, 2007. 1:11 PM REPLY

Now tht would be a fun project!

Kipkay says:

Oct 23, 2007. 1:43 PM REPLY

Thanks for the input. I've added another step, How Does it Work. Let me know if I explained it well enough. Thanks!

gdawg says:

Oct 23, 2007. 8:16 PM REPLY

Ah, this is definitely well enough. Thanks!

kill-a-watt says:

Oct 22, 2007. 11:48 PM REPLY

I can't see regular, steady pulses of near IR light doing any damage to a TV, even if he's using three whole LEDs

salec says:

Oct 26, 2007. 1:18 AM REPLY

Only remote (pun not intended) possibility I see is if steady (or perhaps "dirty", discontinued by being on the edge of useful range or performing flaky
because of cold solder points) stream was misinterpreted by TV as some unlisted service command which tweaks some important setting. To many
"ifs" in there, though.
Besides, even if it was possible, TV repair service would be able to restore it and no material damage would ensue.

mtxe says:
I agree if this damaged a TV I'd be very surprised.
Also if this was harmful wouldn't having more than one IR device in your living room be just as harmful to your TV.

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Oct 23, 2007. 9:50 AM REPLY

sahmeepee says:

Oct 26, 2007. 12:41 AM REPLY

Only if you cross the streams. That would be bad.

mtxe says:

Oct 26, 2007. 7:55 AM REPLY

Yes a total protonic reversal.

james.mcglashan says:

May 3, 2009. 3:44 AM REPLY

can u please make a printed curcit board scmatic as well as the normal scmatic u already have that i can print out and then put the componets on the board
and then solder and please do this for all ur projects please that would be nice and easy and betta for the utube clips lol u can make more betta projects and
more people can make it with ease so they can just print it off on the board and then use it this will also get me used to making printed curcits for the futcher
so i can make all of my instructable idears i have in my head much easer and with the printing ability to make betta boards that i need and i am sure i am not
the only person that has the idear of the printed curcit boards but needs more practice...
if u cant can u please do as many as u can so more people can make this and use less solder...

saintlavin says:

Apr 17, 2009. 4:53 AM REPLY

can you make a video on how to essamble it? i am very bad in reading schematics

pyroten says:

Mar 27, 2009. 12:44 AM REPLY

i don't understand the potentiometer. I bought a 10k horizontal trimpot but i'm not sure which of the pins are joined like in the diagram. does the wiper
connect to one of the terminals and does it matter if the terminals are swapped?

pyroten says:

Mar 27, 2009. 3:10 AM REPLY

oh yea., and i'm only getting 1.2 volts output to the leds which is then shared. so they get about 0.6 vlts each. This is with the variable res. all the way
down to 0 resistance. These are the leds i'm using:
http://jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=ZD1945&CATID=33&form=CAT&SUBCATID=245
This is it:
5MM EMITTING DIODELooks like a 5mm LED & has a blue transparent lens.Specifications:- Forward Current (If): 50mA max - Peak forward current (Ip):
1.2A- Forward Voltage (VF): 1.2V @ 20mA - Reverse Voltage (VR): 5V max- Power Dissipation (Pd): 100mW max - Viewing Angle: 30- Peak Spectral
Wavelength(IR): 940nm @ 20mA * Spectral Bandwidth (DI): 50nm@20mA- Material: GaAs
can someone please help? : D

joost53 says:

Oct 14, 2008. 2:17 PM REPLY

it doen,t work for me...

the leds burn but the remote still works, what could it be?

DemonDomen says:

Mar 24, 2009. 11:32 AM REPLY

Maybe you have the wrong frequency. That's what the potentiometer is for.

thundaboy1047 says:

May 29, 2008. 2:50 PM REPLY

I dont know where to get these parts....I live on the east coast of the USA. And yes i have radioshacks, but none of them have circuit board parts

junits15 says:

Mar 20, 2009. 6:48 PM REPLY

Google for electronic parts store, click around, who knows what you will find! :D

randomstufdude says:

Mar 8, 2009. 7:15 PM REPLY

i live on the west coast and every on i have been to has had them. the have labeled compartment drawers they should have them. if not you can also
look online radioshack.com

corl45 says:

Jun 8, 2008. 6:36 PM REPLY

if you are OK with buying stuff online try this site: http://allelectronics.com/, ived used it with great results, but if you buy, buy stuff for multiple projects
because shipping is a big $7:00

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cormac3050 says:

Jun 28, 2008. 6:32 PM REPLY

How much would afore mentioned shipping be to dublin (ireland)??

corl45 says:

Jun 28, 2008. 8:28 PM REPLY

i have no idea.. sorry you could see if you can find out.

thundaboy1047 says:

Jun 9, 2008. 12:38 PM REPLY

The links not working and allel electronics is not on google so maybe they have
a new website?

corl45 says:

Jun 9, 2008. 5:41 PM REPLY

bought some stuff on thursday and it came saturday, but i live more in the west coast (Utah) , so idk how long it will be for you.

corl45 says:

Jun 9, 2008. 5:40 PM REPLY

its: all electronics http://www.allelectronics.com/ sometimes there site goes down, but i just visited it.

Shadow Ops says:

Mar 20, 2009. 1:28 PM REPLY

Ha! Does your cheek hurt?!

mogkb4536 says:

Oct 30, 2008. 10:43 AM REPLY

Where is the Hex file to program the 555 timer?

shams says:

Feb 8, 2009. 8:31 AM REPLY

program it?why do you want to program it??

mogkb4536 says:

Oct 30, 2008. 10:57 AM REPLY

never mined i was thinking straight sorry

Rs master says:
you cant program a 555 timeror can you!!(no really i dont know)

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