First Post
Thats really cool… but it cant be good for the mag strip on his drivers license.

Posted at 10:55 pm on Jan 21st, 2007 by Andrew

I wouldn’t do that with one of my current credit cards, but anything old or expired is ruinable. The drivers license risk may depend on where you live. I’ve never had mine in a mag stripe reader.

Posted at 12:56 am on Jan 22nd, 2007 by Izzy

If only IL had Magnetic strips on Drivers Licenses. Would that be bad for the Magnetic strip though?

Posted at 12:56 am on Jan 22nd, 2007 by Nick

I’d assume he’s at low voltage and current, thus not enough heating to randomize the domains and not enough magnetic fields to zero the card.

Posted at 4:17 am on Jan 22nd, 2007 by david

Pencils use graphite not lead.

Posted at 9:24 am on Jan 22nd, 2007 by Ben

hey the post is from “Monday, January 15, 2007″ it is below the picture of the girl with the weird face hardware. The video there is really interesting. Looks like fun.

Posted at 9:45 am on Jan 22nd, 2007 by hal hockersmith

#4
If pencils were lead, it wouldn’t be all that great a resistor
Graphite in pencils is actually a resister. try it out yourself!

Posted at 4:32 pm on Jan 22nd, 2007 by atrain

Wow. I use Reason, and just watching this makes me really want to do this myself. Anyway, I don’t know much about electronic schematics and whatnot, so if anyone would like to help me a bit, either by explaining how it’s assembled or maybe an even easier alternative (same concept), then please, send me an email:

aeron005 [atnospam] gmail.com

Posted at 11:01 pm on Jan 24th, 2007 by aeron

just because people use the words “pencil lead” does not mean that it is lead, “pencil lead” is in reference to graphite, and this is common knowledge. The only time you should state that “pencil lead” is not lead is when they complain about lead poisoning from when their friend poked them with a pencil.
now that i am done with that, i got lost about 5 words in, perhaps someone could post a how-to?

Posted at 5:09 pm on Jan 25th, 2007 by bgugi

how much does it cost to make something like this?

and if i were to run a magnet over the strip an erase all the data, would it still make a sound????

Posted at 4:03 pm on Oct 15th, 2009 by MC MIC

Hey!

I need help finding the source file with the diagrams

i folled the link and came up with nothing

Posted at 9:30 pm on Oct 16th, 2009 by MC MIC