Remote Remote Control

I have a newborn baby and he doesn't think he should sleep quite as long as my Wife and I might wish him too. One thing that does keep him happy in his crib is the mobile that hangs over him. So when he wakes up if we need another 25mins or so of sleepy time we turn on his mobile for him. This works great except that we have to get out of our bed to do that.
Well not anymore, in this Instructable I show you how to extend a remote remotely.

Blurb:
Extend the range on an Infrared Remote control to another room by running 2 wires and making a super simple momentary switch from spare parts.

Step 1 Open up the remote control.

First we need to take the remote control apart so we can get access to the internals.

On opening it up I found triangle style screw heads. This is super annoying and I don't know why a remote control would need to be protected from tampering with. It's not like this is in a public place or something. Haven't these guys read the Makers bill of rights?
http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/MAKERS_RIGHTS.pdf

Anyway on to the next step to figure out a way to deal with these screws.

Comments

[bigt4616]

you could neaten it up a bit by grabbing a project box and a push button.

[J-Five]

Congratulations!!!! He is so CUTE!!!

[junior640661]

what is a lead

[master key]

The thin wires sticking out from a component

[tinkerC]

Do you have Triplets? Triplets who wake up at different times? This might be useful for my relatives who have.

[Nitishdash]

Very gud inStrUCtabLE . But can u please say where do I get the REMOTE??????

[Code128]

Sure, the mobile itself came with the remote. Heres a link http://www.tinylove.com/toy.aspx?toyId=217&state=toyTypeId=13@elementId=0@ageId=0

[fwjs28]

looks pretty cool...5/5