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‘Reggaeton Be Gone’: This homemade machine silences neighbours' music using AI
Fed up with his neighbour playing reggaeton loudly, this Argentinian programmer decided to remedy the situation with an invention that has gone viral.
Roni Bandini, an Argentinian programmer and artist, has a neighbour who likes reggaeton but usually plays it at odd hours, with a Bluetooth speaker close to his wall. "If the inference exceeds a level of recognition, for example, 75% certainty that it's my neighbour's preferred genre, the machine sends multiple requests and packets [via Bluetooth] to the speaker, for which I have the MAC address, in order to turn it off or at least jam the audio," Bandini explained in a video posted on social media. His inspiration came from TV-B-Gone, a universal remote control launched in 2004 capable of turning off TVs in public places such as shops, bars and waiting rooms.
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