technogeeks ahoy!
First things first: my new!roommate made me and our other!roommate Easter baskets filled with chocolatey goodness. Reason #178649 why new!roommate is a bajillion times better than the psychotic ex!roommate.
Anyway. I need technological assistance on a prank. My parents have installed this TV in their living room that spends much of its time cunningly disguised as a granite countertop, until you click the remote and it slowly and majestically emerges. My parents are VERY proud of their stealth!TV. It's a crucial part of the apartment tour for new guests. And I badly need to somehow rig it up so that the Imperial March plays as the TV rises. Seriously, I spent a good chunk of time (okay, like five minutes) today examining the mechanism and the construction of the thing, and I definitely am willing to sacrifice my computer speakers for this purpose. But I don't know WHAT to play the music itself on (to connect to the speakers), and, crucially, HOW to rig it to play only when the TV does its emerging thing.
Right now, I can think of two possibilities -- either I Rube Goldberg the shit out of it so that the physical motion of the TV trips a switch somehow, or I do...something to figure out the radio frequency of the remote that controls the TV rise/fall and have that somehow trigger the audio. But I don't actually know how to DO either of those things. Are there any technology geeks out there who can advise me on this crucially important matter?
I don't think you understand how determined I am to make this happen. It would be the most glorious prank EVER. My parents would lose their shit. But HOW?
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Anyway. I need technological assistance on a prank. My parents have installed this TV in their living room that spends much of its time cunningly disguised as a granite countertop, until you click the remote and it slowly and majestically emerges. My parents are VERY proud of their stealth!TV. It's a crucial part of the apartment tour for new guests. And I badly need to somehow rig it up so that the Imperial March plays as the TV rises. Seriously, I spent a good chunk of time (okay, like five minutes) today examining the mechanism and the construction of the thing, and I definitely am willing to sacrifice my computer speakers for this purpose. But I don't know WHAT to play the music itself on (to connect to the speakers), and, crucially, HOW to rig it to play only when the TV does its emerging thing.
Right now, I can think of two possibilities -- either I Rube Goldberg the shit out of it so that the physical motion of the TV trips a switch somehow, or I do...something to figure out the radio frequency of the remote that controls the TV rise/fall and have that somehow trigger the audio. But I don't actually know how to DO either of those things. Are there any technology geeks out there who can advise me on this crucially important matter?
I don't think you understand how determined I am to make this happen. It would be the most glorious prank EVER. My parents would lose their shit. But HOW?
This entry was originally posted on Dreamwidth. Comment wherever you'd like.