Can You Turn On a TV With a Lighter?

[@LoagieHoagie]

Instructions unclear, the living room burnt down

[@Armando_Aranda]

We burnt down the living room for science.

[@SwapPartLLC]

Well, the TV should be off now.

[@wolfhusky9507]

The living room burned me

[@merlinsbeard708]

I love these type comments

[@Ajhilz]

And the TV is still on😂😂

[@jdweiser]

Now we just need to see a video of Mark actually getting the TV to turn on with a 6 ft barcode. I also like to watch CoolestJonas on KZbin.

[@Om20133]

It’s not 6ft it’s 60

[@emilygrae]

@@Om20133 "at this scale" he said.

[@madmax82988]

​​@@emilygrae yeah and at 6 feet those slits would be impossibly small then. 10 times smaller than they are now

[@Om20133]

@@madmax82988 true

[@Rekhan4242]

I am honestly surprised that wasn't next

[@theonlinelime1992]

The idea of using older technology to communicate with newer one fascinates me, like I’d actually be interested to see if an object like this could work using 1800 technology

[@AiLiShan365]

Well, did you know you could replace your Wii sensor bar with 2 candles ?

[@2311pHySSiX]

no, bc 1800 tech didnt have infrared.

[@joeysung311]

@@2311pHySSiX "infrared" is not a technology. cavemen could use infrared

[@AssortedMold268]

@@2311pHySSiX uh…. sources of heat produce infrared…. like the lighter in the video….. (if you meant the infrared receiver in the tv, you read OP’s comment wrong)

[@건너마을돌돌이]

소파에서 일어나지 않고 TV를 꺼야하는게 명제이다. 긴막대기를 이용하면 된다.

[@JBproductions.]

I now want to see mark build a robot that can turn on a tv with a 60ft barcode moving at 250mph

[@Rekhan4242]

Kinda disappointed we didn't see one!

[@Rainy_Lynel]

So… a remote?

[@JBproductions.]

@@Rainy_Lynel I mean you have a point but I mean a dramatically over engineered version 😂 also a normal remote doesn’t exactly have a 60ft barcode lol

[@cartooncreator6267]

@MarkRober, if we get this to 1k likes would u build this?!

[@patrickwatkiss7872]

Same.😂

[@AtariEric]

I wonder if something like this would have worked for the very first IR remotes - back when the electronics were far more simple and there weren't 80 thousand signals to differentiate from.

[@JinnaiT]

Probably yes, one of the first ones just made a clicking sound

[@nurmr]

The first remotes used ultrasonic tones generated by the buttons hitting something like a small tuning fork.

[@Lijlyon]

​@@nurmr To be honest, the truly first remotes weren't even wireless to begin with. Just some buttons with a long cord that hopefully reached from the TV to the couch.

[@evanislost]

​@@Lijlyon or you just made the cord longer

[@romanlatenko738]

​@@nurmr Это очень не нравилось домашним животным.

[@MyHeroAcademiaFanboy027]

Random person: "Time to make my own laws of science." Mark Rober: "And I took that personally."

[@computerbasic5952]

“Yo can you turn the TV off?” “Grabs a 60ft paper” 💀

[@willdavis2005]

“” ⬅️

[@sawdust8691]

"Runs across the room at 250mph"

[@claudiogarciasarmiento7487]

why not use the metric system i have small foot.

[@arbajmia333]

Hello 😮🎉

[@lilltin]

“Ahhhh, thank you.. you’re a life saver” 👹

[@nobertvr2483]

What I'm hearing is it's technically possible...better get on that Mark.

[@JD867]

Maybe something like a cassette tape, with a rotating roll and an engine . . .

[@Himiko1toga1villaintime]

This has nothing to do with your comment but I had to ask did anyone learn from this video that their TV had an on button I looked at the sides and there's no buttons I assume there was no on button I was wrong

[@nobertvr2483]

@@Himiko1toga1villaintime I'm just wondering why you chose to put this under my comment?😅

[@archimedes9046]

i used a lighter as a wii sensor bar so i could start gamecube games

[@avb3065]

Instructions clear, there is a totalled car in my living room now

[@hannahnelson5803]

But is your TV successfully turned off??

[@Wang_Thunder]

You CAN use two candles to replace the "sensor" bar for a Wii though ;)

[@7792pnaurfr]

Who asked?

[@rsptouren9476]

Pineapple ​@@7792pnaurfr

[@TeachEr-r8x]

​@@7792pnaurfr me

[@noahdienel2598]

​@@7792pnaurfr bro why are you being such a hater? The comment is relevant and interesting.

[@davintjahyadi373]

Who pinnapple pizza?​@@7792pnaurfr

[@chadyount3125]

I like how Mark is found shorts now. It’s very short and sweet but still very informative!

[@HelloThere.....]

Also I feel like the frequency and amplitude of the wave matter too, not just the signal modulation

[@IPFreelyYT]

No, not really. The amplitude just needs to reach a certain minimum point which a lighter will reach at that distance. And flame does produce the correct frequency, assuming by frequency you mean the wavelength of light.

[@TheBrotherHolmes]

You can use two candles as a replacement for a Wii motion bar.

[@TrollDecker]

Yeah, but that's for a different purpose. They're not sending commands, they're just there for the Wiimote to measure and translate into an onscreen position.

[@TheBrotherHolmes]

@@TrollDecker yup

[@rubycosmo6279]

The bots got a hold of this comment lol

[@lucaspichon9818]

Im so sad I didn't know this as a child when i had a wii

[@maso4xx]

does the fact you are incapable of having a thought anyone would care to hear ever get to you? personally i’d rather accept that fact than be like you.

[@BeHocVaChoiVN]

lighter and paper? i never thought of that. your last move was the best. just press 1 and it's done😂😂

[@thanos879]

Or an easier way, you can simply open a wormhole in front of your remote from the past. Just master the universe first.

[@ruppzie8708]

tbf humans are likely to run into a wormhole than to reach a speed of 240 mph

[@joshuarichards2421]

Thus, causing the missing remote in the first place. Oops I looped!

[@arbajmia333]

Hi 😮🎉

[@robertboyd2223]

Master the universe with a universal remote

[@meodrac]

Summon the demons of salazar to retrieve the remote

[@Kateykat]

Mark you should make more shorts like this its super fun to learn stuff like this

[@Alleycat_0]

This is why mid and early 2000's tv's are great

[@kevangelinem1651]

Oh, Mark, ik you prob won't see this, but I have been watching your videos for 9 years, even being an adult, lol. I have always loved your methods of teaching. My son is 4 now, and he loves watching you! He loves numbers and experiments. I know you definitely inspire him - and in different ways than you did to me. Thank you for everything you do❤

[@BungieStudios]

Mark, please read your comments!

[@thesusboy9]

Non-relatable

[@thomasdickson35]

Mark, you've never been a quitter. Where's the build with the correct version? Love, everyone. ❤

[@CommunistStalin-U.S.S.R]

Oops I pressed the red button instead of the tv button so there's a Thermonuclear Warhead heading towards New York,I'm just a president 😝

[@sunburntsatan6475]

I'm convinced a sufficiently advanced engineer could pull this off

[@john_titor1]

Obviously, hence the fact that remotes exist in the first place.

[@V3RT3X_PINNACLE]

@@john_titor1 actually made me giggle

[@MercurySpades]

As a fifth year engineering student, I could. First step, go online. Second step, find and order a new remote.

[@sidlori1592]

​@@john_titor1lol, perfect comeback 😂

[@clemensvorbauer1183]

actually it's not that hard, but you have to be very consistent with the speed, and it's easier with two stripes of paper (one for the 40 kHz carrier-frequency, the other for the signal)

[@danielpyke1246]

"If you lose your remote just push the button" *Remote chilling on the couch* 😂

[@NotHalfADime]

*under

[@danielpyke1246]

@@NotHalfADime no?? The remote was on the couch. Watch the vid again

[@GilaBert-sq4hj]

😂

[@mofayer]

That's why he said "if", there was no joke there.

[@logiclrd]

He's making a video about a hypothetical situation.

[@vishalsharma5427]

Happy Diwali ❤ Love from Bharat /India

[@nitroburn2707]

I love when Marks turn off his tv, when the tv plays a clip where he failed a Basketball shot in the Mr Beast video 😂

[@TurdBoi666]

Lol

[@arbajmia333]

Hi 😮🎉

[@thatonegoy111]

took a while to find this comment

[@KidXP]

I was looking to find a comment that noticed this

[@coltenite.]

Crazy how we out here sending barcodes to the tv like they’re Minecraft commands 😂

[@mrblahbah2522]

That nod of disappointment at the end 🤣🤣

[@kaven1014]

It's so cool to see you explaining IR receivers and Transmitters. I used an IR remote on an autonomous robot of mine, i knew the barcode method made no sense haha 😆

[@savestheday258]

That guy didn't expect Mark Rober to debunk him 😂

[@LandDano]

The remote sitting on the couch: 👁️👄👁️

[@lukelileika2787]

Waiting for u to create a mechanism to do this mechanically. A band of that pulse signal wrapped around two pulleys with a lighter in the middle. The wheels spin very very fast

[@fschmitt]

You don't will be. PWM needs to be much faster

[@lukelileika2787]

@@fschmittgear reductions

[@fschmitt]

@@lukelileika2787 😂👍

[@Kanyewestlover3005]

everybody is missing the joke at the end when the remote is literally on the couch

[@Thedarkscientist-tc1kb]

I was scrolling through the comments trying to find someone to pointed that out lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mofayer]

He clearly stated "if you lose the remote". A hypothetical isn't a joke.

[@AgentCyanide]

Yup, i was looking for this exact comment

[@American_Innovation]

Why was I surprised to see that mark had a nice scope?

[@yoffo_]

You can use two candles to emulate the thingy on the TV for the Nintendo Wii :D the remote only needs a constant signal

[@Kirbyplayer10]

me & my sister did this with a lamp ☠️

[@ГошаЗубарев-д4ы]

Очень захватывающий эксперимент! Спасибо что радуешь контентом! Привет из России

[@galeksrus]

🇷🇺

[@ЕкатеринаВолчкова-г6ш]

НАКОНЕЦ-ТО, Я НАШËЛ ЕГО: РУССКИЙ КОМЕНТАРИЙ!!!! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@Gordon0FreeMan]

У меня видео было с русской озвучкой, поэтому я очень удивился, не найдя русскоязычных комментариев и кнопки переключения языка в видео.

[@ITHrealXD]

Instructions unclear, the TV turned off the lighter

[@6345T5]

While choosing new phone the first feature I was looking for was IR blaster. Helped me alot in many situations. Instead of 10 remotes I have one simple application in my phone which works better than regular remotes.

[@sidlori1592]

@@6345T5 Really handy for shutting off TVs of unsuspecting people...or that movie channel inside a locked room that happens to have a window facing the multimedia rack 🤣

[@CatMaster91]

ชอบคลิปของชาวต่างชาติครับ แต่ไม่มีใครแปลไทยให้ ขอบคุณครับผม

[@ahmetyoruk9949]

You can save 2% by pressing the TV button instead of the remote control, which will be of little use to you 😅

[@gogmagaming33]

That may not work, but if I remember correctly, using two candles can replace a sensor bar for the wii.

[@d.4.6.e]

Simple, concise, clear, press the button on the tv

[@the-genius10]

Man back then when I never understood anything about physics or circuits, or how things work with power of engineering, until Mark Rober came into the picture and now I’m in college majoring in robotics and automation, life is weird like that 😂.

[@hahaagi]

더 중요한것이 저거 모듈레이션이 걸려 있어요. 일반 주파수는 걸러 버려요. 내부에 LPF 가 들어 있어요. 태양광이나 주변광을 차단하려고요.

[@opsolder1219]

What if the slits in the paper were really small, maybe even microscopic?

[@infectiontag1328]

that would be possible, but at that point why not just buy a new remote

[@vedvod]

Diffraction would occur, distorting/alteringthe signal.

[@garfieldnate]

Actually getting this to work would be a great video!

[@RippedLipsBassFishing]

That one uncle:

[@arbajmia333]

G😢😮😂

[@hatandtie2414]

Couldn't you solve both problems by just making the slits smaller?

[@Benoit-Pierre]

Nope. They need to be large enough to have cutting error smaller than signal tolerance. By hand you can't reliably make them smaller than 3 or 5 mm. But there is only 14 to 32 bits per frame. That reasonably 7 to 48 cm if you send 3 frames ( signal needs to be repeated ). Can't see any reason to use more than 2 feet of paper. A simple A4 should do.

[@davidisenhower6047]

We used to hold two lighters to get the wii remote to click on melee in the menu

[@Mr.PWNGMR]

Happy Diwali Mark bro🎇🎆🎇🎆🎆🎇🎇🎆🎇Love from India ❤❤❤

[@FrozenKnight21]

Id need to look into the protocol, but there are some cases where this may actually work. But there a lot of conditions which would likely need to be met.

[@splynncryth]

There is a 38khz carrier wave for the signal encoding. That's not going to get emulated with slits and fast hands.

[@arbajmia333]

Hi 😮🎉

[@KiwifruitDev]

​@@splynncryththis is an ir remote not an rf remote

[@whoisthebossimtheboss]

If there isn't a button on the back, you can pull the cord.

[@nurcamelliaputri2336]

Penjelasan paman mudah dimengerti, terimakasih.

[@pqsk]

So the internet is telling me to not believe everything you see on the internet. Oh boy, this is quite a conundrum we have here. What should we do internet? Believe the first guy or the 2nd guy?

[@tibhamel]

Believe none of them, and create your own experiment to see what the truth really is.

[@Janelle-g3v]

@@tibhamel *me burns house down.

[@akirababe1570]

It's like the house hippos.

[@pqsk]

@@Janelle-g3v 😹

[@Beefhaving]

one party is a tiktoker, so he can be dismissed outright. Whether to believe the 2nd guy, 🤷

[@radiavoc]

this is like how you can replace the wii sensor bar with two candles bc if infrared

[@shaanbagri6635]

Now we just need to see a video of Mark actually getting the TV to turn on with a 6 ft barcode.

[@SUS15499]

Did you notice that Mark turned off the television with the button but he had the control on the same chair?

[@Immortal10364]

LOVE FROM PUNE INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 ❤😘☺🙂🥰👍😎😃😊😀😍🥰❤🥰❤❤

[@gypsearose1507]

Sadly a lot of new tvs don't have the power button anymore. But the most of them have remote apps you can get on your phone.

[@khotabych1]

Xiaomi в помощь , там встроенный пульт для многих моделей телевизоров и не только 😅

[@DJRonnieG]

That almost made as much sense as using two candles as a Nintendo Wii sensor bar (the latter trick a rually works).

[@biyikli]

Today's lesson: Never lose your remote

[@captain_commenter8796]

5 Minute Crafts ahh life hack 💀

[@premgupta3076]

Happy Diwali mark Love from india 🇮🇳🇮🇳❤

[@CJJ-im9jk]

We need more smart people like Mark Rober

[@AMH793]

“Push the button” my tv does not have a power button 😅

[@theeveryman8518]

Do the wii candles next frl

[@rajasohanalam6651]

14 Audio tracks for a single short 💀🔥. Meanwhile Hollywood less than 3 Audio Tracks 😅

[@33uro]

Many of them are ai

[@sethb196]

Come on, make a 60 foot paper on scrolls with motors to spin them at 250mph. A really big fast cassette if you will. You know you want to. We want you to!

[@ChaseTrent]

For the Wii, if you lost the sensor bar, you could point the Wiimote at a lighter, although not very well.

[@Kaira112-h]

Happy Diwali 🎇🪔😊😊😊

[@Fetidaf]

Remember when someone found out they could use 2 candles instead of the Wii Sensor bar? That was peak human.

[@anthonywilson7268]

Rg3 is smart and im glad he was there

[@Kelinci75]

The moment at the end, his TV aired Mark Rober during a basketball throwing loss

[@simplegunsmith]

You might not be able to turn on a tv with a lighter, but you can open the disk tray of an Xbox 360 with a plasma ball. My friend was kinda confused when i discovered this lmao

[@AiOinc1]

Keep in mind that older televisions use much shorter codes and at much lower signaling rates

[@Miyakuyakuchan]

Short, concise and clear😅

[@felixsteck8094]

You can use some phonnes as your remote i dont know on which phones exactly it works but on my xiaomi one it does

[@Imthequeenoftherats]

Funny but the sensor bar on for the Wii can be replaced (dangerously) with two candles.

[@Acidiclava]

This is the moment when i enjoy someone's yapping.

[@dr3982.]

You can do this with a Wii though, as two tea light candles can replace the sensor bar for the Wiimotes

[@kapilishere]

Instruction unclear: the tv is sucessfully turned off, but had a blast.

[@TanksYouVeryMuch]

Alex from Legit Street Cars is back doing science experiments again.

[@cartersworldstudio]

Can You Test the Wii sensor bar thing, where you put two candles apart in place of your sensor bar?

[@bose301s]

Most TV remotes aren't even IR anymore, Bluetooth or WiFi Direct are generally used now

[@blackpanther2396]

The only single person who teach brilliant science ❤😂

[@AbGamingg-FF]

Happy Diwali 🎇🎇 Mark Rober 🎉🎉

[@GoldenGearGrinder]

I keep my note 4 as a TV remote. I wish samsung didn't ditch the inbuilt ir blaster.

[@OneAndOnlyZekePolaris]

Or get a Tamagotchi. Mine's work for all TVs

[@mllllles_heavner]

you could prolly try moving a magnet around somewhere on the tv like you can with a laptop

[@Diiip123]

Happy Diwali mark . love from India 🎉

[@kenzokk3098]

Now we will never know if the shot went in

[@M9GA]

Why, when I view this video it’s in Slovak 😭🙏

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

If I tried this I would accidentally light the paper on fire.

[@renudinodia3296]

The way that the TV remote actually ended up being on the sofa in the end is crazy

[@Nichoandangel]

The end 😂😅, “just press the button” 😂😂

[@adityablocks9225]

Happy diwali bhau 🎉❤

[@Sagar.Kumbalkar]

IR Remote Really BT 💀

[@K-EHRENWORTH-f3p]

Maybe pulse width modulation using a ir diode and a wave generator app

[@Robbie_Roy113]

Fun fact: you can see the infared light from a remote with the passthrough function on an oculus/meta quest 2

[@uropig]

Using a candle does work in place of a wii remote sensor because the ir doesn't need to pulse

[@CrunchyDentist]

Love the debunking😊