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Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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Is this not technically an IED?

This is absolutely how IEDs are made. You buy an old Nokia phone and wire the speaker/ringer to the detonator. Call phone -> boom. In fact, TFReadme directly references Electroboom/Mehdi Sadaghdar who did this with an old-school analog alarm clock (the kind with an actual bell) and in the video he muses that it's literally a time bomb, har har get it.

> wire the speaker/ringer to the detonator. Call phone -> boom.

Given the constant stream of spam and scam calls I get that seems like an incredibly bad idea.

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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Try this with a tantalum capacitor. Careful not to lose an eye...

Luckily our eyes tend to be closed when we're asleep. Evolutionary safety squints.

I'd like to see a study on the threshold of projectiles versus safety squints. I searched around, but couldn't find a paper.

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts. Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy. Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide…

MEPIC fuses... ok... Green? Oh my!

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts. Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy. Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide…

You forgot to add a link to the blog :)

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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post #45

This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts. Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy. Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide…

You forgot to add a link to the blog :)

It was not an oversight, however since you asked:

http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2013/04/magic-smoke-resistors...

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts. Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy. Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide…

Byte Magazine had an April ad for a Noise Emitting Diode. The symbol was a diode wearing a pair of earmuffs.

Re: Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

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This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts. Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy. Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide…

Byte Magazine had an April ad for a Noise Emitting Diode. The symbol was a diode wearing a pair of earmuffs.

I looked that up. Interesting that it appears on page 369. The numbers from the famous N. Tesla quote.

Sadly we've lost such funs stuff in the modern era. Has anything been better than the Signetics Write-Only-Memory from long ago today?

https://dn760104.eu.archive.org/0/items/best_of_byte_volume_...

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