Promethean Board controller? would be fun at school

[xSetrox]

Hey, so EVERY classroom in school (except gym and art) have these promethean boards.
You use a pen to control them. And there is a projector that uses infrared signals to turn it on and off.
I think it would be cool if I could change an infrared remote into a controller to do such a thing. I want the remote to be able to turn on and off all of these projectors.
Is there any way to do so easily?

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[Starzy]

Hey, so EVERY classroom in school (except gym and art) have these promethean boards.
You use a pen to control them. And there is a projector that uses infrared signals to turn it on and off.
I think it would be cool if I could change an infrared remote into a controller to do such a thing. I want the remote to be able to turn on and off all of these projectors.
Is there any way to do so easily?

I doubt you'd be able to do it but it's possible.

[Ipquarx]

Well you'd have to:
1. Figure out how the infrared signal is currently sent from the projector (Pretty sure you won't be able to figure this out)
2. Modify the remote to send the same kind of signal (Even if you could do #1, this again probably isn't doable)

[nerd of the week]

Your solution is SmartBoards they are 100% touchscreen same sort of thing my school has both

[Gatysh]

Your solution is SmartBoards they are 100% touchscreen same sort of thing my school has both

did you even read the OP

[EazyE]

Your solution is SmartBoards they are 100% touchscreen same sort of thing my school has both

dumbforget

anyways just steal the remote

[xSetrox]

Your solution is SmartBoards they are 100% touchscreen same sort of thing my school has both

..what

[carolcat]

what's with everyone suddenly wanting to forget up a teacher's plans just for a laugh? i've never understood disrupting a class just for attention or for fun, it's just disrespectful.

[Starzy]

what's with everyone suddenly wanting to forget up a teacher's plans just for a laugh? i've never understood disrupting a class just for attention or for fun, it's just disrespectful.

I agree with everything here, it's more fun to forget off the students who disrupt class, we used to have two mice in the class, one wireless one connected, everyone used the connected one while the wireless was in the draw, we took it cause we sit near the computer and when people use it (The ones that are annoying and disrespectful.) we just start clicking, needless to say they got detention / couldn't use the computer for the rest of the year for clicking on one of those research site ads.

[Char]

what's with everyone suddenly wanting to forget up a teacher's plans just for a laugh? i've never understood disrupting a class just for attention or for fun, it's just disrespectful.

...because it is fun to them

i mean being disrespectful doesn't make it not fun

i sure want to be a smartass to all of my teachers because it would be funny, but I don't because I just want to stay out of trouble

[ABlockOfCheese]

Probably impractical but you could get one of those small wireless mice and control it from your desk.

[Nikolan]

Probably impractical but you could get one of those small wireless mice and control it from your desk.

i had a wireless numpad that i connected to my teachers desktop once, and at random times when he'd be doing things i'd just mash the numbers

p.s this teacher was extremely tribal and everyone thought he was a creep

[xSetrox]

i had a wireless numpad that i connected to my teachers desktop once, and at random times when he'd be doing things i'd just mash the numbers

p.s this teacher was extremely tribal and everyone thought he was a creep

hahah I'm gonna try to connect a wireless mouse

[ChappersTeddy]

yes there is a controller - we have one at school and you just point it at the board and the board turns off or on
ofc only under the teacher's possession our school isn't that dumb

[Zeblote]

Step 1: Google it. There might be specifications on the signal for the specific models so you can program universal remotes or something like that.

Step 2: If step 1 brings no results, steal one of the remotes, make sure it works (!), and brown townyze the signal. This would most likely fail if you don't know what youre doing

Step 3: Program your universal remote / rc phone app to send that signal and switch off the projector during a presentation!