[grogenaut]

At the first show I was at that had them, The International 5 in Seattle, I figured out they were IR very quickly by putting one in my backpack and seeing it didn't react when all the others did but did react as soon as I pulled it out (cloth backpack).

I then prime now'd a univeral remote to the arena. I had arena wifi for my work but I was in the stands. That didn't work (didn't pick up a signal). So that night I diassembled it and verfied it was basically a moulded wristband, micro, ir, leds, battery and connectors. so I next day'd an IR Toy to the arena. I was able to read a signal but couldn't reproduce it. It was kinda hard to live code during the event and my batteries kept dying.

I tried again the next year but got bored after that. It was annoying to have the setup at the ready when they flashed the lights especially as that was usually during the biggest moments of action. So I just sat back and enjoyed the show.

[hencq]

I initially read over what show this was, so I was picturing you live coding this during a Taylor Swift concert.

[grogenaut]

They wouldn't let me bring in a laptop to eras sadly. And they're crimping my style at baseball games as well.

[freedomben]

More evidence that we're losing our rights to general purpose computing!

(joking of course as that's not what is happening here. I am truly highly concerned about the loss of general purpose computing, but I also love poking fun at myself and group)

[HeyLaughingBoy]

> I then prime now'd a univeral remote to the arena

I confess that I had to read this three times before I got it. And now I'm amazed at the times we live in. I was impressed enough that I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, but I can order something on Amazon and possibly get it the same day, but being able to order something delivered to a public place and know that it will get there within hours just blows my mind.

For all the bad things you can say about Amazon, achieving this level of logistics is insane.