Taking a break from his book, "How to Gain Enemies and Encourage Hostility," [FPS Weapons] shows us how to build our own handheld EMP generator which can be used to generate immediate dislike from anyone working on something electronic at the hackerspace.
The device is pretty simple. A DC source, in this case an 18650 lithium battery cell, sends power to an "Ultra High Voltage 1000kV Ignition Coil" (as the eBay listing calls it), when a button is pressed. A spark gap is used to dump a large amount of magic pixies into the coil all at once, which generates a strong enough magnetic pulse to induce an unexpected voltage inside of a piece of digital electronics. This usually manages to fire a reset pin or something equivalent, disrupting the device's normal operation.
Fun project in the spirit of TV-B-Gone.
[Ed note: This may or may not be legal in your area. It is definitely not recommended for use when a passenger on a moving vehicle.]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Sunday October 16 2016, @07:44PM
"and so," said the grandma while gently rocking her nephew's crib, "the baddie realized, as the hood of the car broke into his lower torso squashing his entrails, that old fashioned cars with carburetors and mechanical distributors do not care much about his nasty portable EMP generator. The End".
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @02:33AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @04:10AM
Old fashioned cars do not care; newfangled robotic drivers do.