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Our next-door neighbor had one of the original Clappers and I distinctly remember the dad cursing whenever he would be channel surfing and accidentally turn to
by vunderba 1y ago
Our next-door neighbor had one of the original Clappers and I distinctly remember the dad cursing whenever he would be channel surfing and accidentally turn to a show filmed before a live audience (like the Arsenio Hall Show) because the applause from the audience would occasionally trigger the clapper and turn the lights off in the living room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper
- Doxin 1y agoI've got no experience with the original "The Clapper", but I had a DIY solder kit for a clap-switch. From what I could figure out that thing would look for two transients with a fairly specific amount of non-transient in between. So clap-clap would trigger it, but not clap...clap or clapclap or clapclapclap. Applause would not trigger that thing. But to be fair neither would trying to activate it without some practice first.