Awesome Tips Apple’s Co-Founder Left to Make THIS??
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When a technical wizard like Steve Wozniak has a problem to solve, you know the solution is going to be interesting. So it’s no surprise that when Woz had too many remotes for his entertainment center, his solution – the Core Master Remote – ended up in the Guiness Book of Records and was the foundation for an entirely new company – CL 9. The thing is… no one else really had that same problem… yet.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:28 What is it?
2:31 Seems complicated
5:30 He forgot something…
7:25 Programming with Pankratz
10:00 It works!
12:30 So what happened?
16:00 Credits
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Core died in a relatively short time, mostly because of cheaper consumer-type remotes hitting the market within a few years of CL9's release. Two of my favs came from Kenwood, the RC-100 and RC-120; they could learn anything as long as it was IR-based.
Pankratz is fucking huge! Like, giant huge, he literally has fucking huge bones! Look at his head compared to Linus, he makes Linus look like a child! What a fucking legend! Also, this sized man haunts my dreams!
12:36 you'd want to do that for testing products
I thought it was made in 2010 until you said "dual microcontroller"
Looks like the key for the death star.
so you are telling me iphones dont come with IR blaster.omg
me when i already own a flipper zero and 20 attachments for it including a maurauder
Gaming MRI machine!!???
Flipper Zero's Grandpa
I mean the fact that even Logitech, who pretty much had the entire "high end programmable remote" market cornered, ended up exiting the market should tell you enough about how niche these are. I just hope that my Harmony remote never dies.
Its a shame logitech universal remotes are crap now. Try use a perfectly good uni remote from 2005
It can do loops! nice! it might be quite tedious to programm a game on it tho 😀
15:04 i see him shiver with antici-
“Left” sure.
He totally “left@ and wasn’t shown the door “or else”
The Great and Powerful Woz!!! He was eclipsed by Jobs’ flamboyance but he was truly the brains behind Apple in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Pure genius.
I had a watch that could do that, when i was at class, i would use my watch and keep turning off the TV and the teacher kept getting frustrated and didnt know what was happening. FUN TIMES!!!
I want to go back 40 years back to 80s with this remote.
Cool idea, but I would never use this.
Making the buttons into e-ink displays will be great!
Bah, why don’t you show us one that’s great to use these days…
I thought I recognized that remote, the hospital I went to for chemotherapy treatment in the late 90's used them!
Great Scott!!!
VCR+ with TV Guide was a game changer for me
1:49 So CM-PURC
Me remembering ir blasters on those chinese phones
1987, incredible. I would never use it, but I can appreciate those who did!
10:41 That store plug was so casual how they flowed between two products that i'm beginning to wonder if Linus just Freudian slips LTT store plugs in day to day conversations. 🤔
I have had this kind of functionality in my tv remote too
Is it really not common?
7:24 I cant believe Linus was frame mogged in his own video. He must've experienced near lethal levels of cortisol spikes here.
So this is the second recent video that i have noticed a laugh track being used after Linus makes one of his infamous dad jokes. I feel that the laugh track makes it a little too cringe, at least for me. Just my 2 cents.
Now you can have programmable remote in your pocket all the time, considering your phone has IR blaster
In 1987, I was playing with Lego and learning multiplication. We had a C64 of some kind. And that clicky remote for the TV. It was actually really fun to click.
This product though, I think that it is the most first world problem solver I think I have ever seen. And it's freaking incredible. I had a really cool universal remote back in the early 2000's, but nothing compared to this.
The 80's were all full of different Hi-Fi units. My brother had a Sony stack. Amp, EQ, Tape deck, CD deck. Also a TV, and a VCR. So you'd typically have 3 remotes. 1 for all of the Sony (or other brand), a second for the TV, and a 3rd for the VCR. If you were lucky, sometimes the stereo remote could be programmed to run the other two, but that was rare. This would have actually been perfect for the setups that used to exist back then. But then again, I have never heard about this until today. And I was into tech stuff back then.
This perfectly shows the importance of Jobs, because this is what happens when Woz is left to his own device…
This remote is so freaking cool. Especially for the time. As a programmer, this is so awesome, being able to run entire sequences of actions with a single button. When Pankratz mentioned for loops, I was like, of course it has for loops. If only they relaunched this again.
this is one of those things where you can see a kid stumbling across and just getting enamored with it and just constantly adding and tweaking the different commands and sequences that are completely unnecessary but interesting to them. And boom, a programmer is born. I remember playing games that had basically proprietary command lines to them and their own command list but the minute you include ways to halt or repeat lines of commands, thats just programming. Cool toy if nothing else, part of me wants to have one laying around. Also have to give it to the designers, aesthetically it looks pretty timeless
the flipper zero back in the day fun fact most flipper are use it remoe lol