So you’ve been rocking a tin foil hat for years now, and people have finally gotten used to your attire and claims that fluoridated water is a government mind control experiment. This holiday, how about something a little more stylish? Yes, it’s a Kickstarter for the World’s First Signal Proof Headwear. This fashionable beanie or cap protects you from harmful electromagnetic rays. Next time you shoot an eighteen minute long YouTube video of a wheezing rant about chemtrails, look fashionable with Shield – the world’s first stylish signal proof hat.
That last tip came to us from a Crowdfunding marketing agency. That means money was exchanged for the purposes of marketing a modern tin foil hat.
[Mike] has an old IBM 5155, the ‘luggable’ computer with design cues taken from the first Compaq. With an Ethernet adapter and a little inspiration, He was able to get this old computer to load the Hackaday retro edition.
[gyrovague] has a Chromecast that’s a bit janky. When it comes to electronics, strangeness means heat. The solution? A heat sink for the Chromecast. You don’t even need a proper heat sink for this one – just epoxy a big ‘ol transformer to the aluminum plate in the Chromecast.
This year, Keysight gave away a pile of test and measurement gear to the i3Detroit hackerspace. Keysight is doing it again, with a grand prize of around $60,000. Entries close on the 15th. Protip: you, personally, don’t want to win this for tax reasons. A non-profit does.
The Internet recently caught wind of a satellite modem being sold by Sparkfun. It’s $250 for the module, with a $12/month line rental, and each 340 byte message costs $0.18 to receive. Yes, it’s cool, and yes, it’s expensive. If you ever need to send a message from the north pole, there you go.
Need to remove the waterproof coating from LED strips? Don’t use a knife, use a Dremel and a wire brush.
BTW the satellite modem + service is cheaper if you buy it directly (£159.00 + tax, 50 Messages £6.00 more messages cheaper, it’s a prepaid model). Further advantage for non US, no export restrictions for an UK product out of U.S.ofA.
http://www.rock7mobile.com/products-rockblock
BTW I’m really looking forward to the new generation of Iridium network satellites.
So theoretically, if I wanted to transmit ~1MB of sensor data over the network it would take 20’000 messages @ 50 characters, which is GBP 800?
But I guess it’s rather made for emergency messaging…
I would guess that the biggest customer would be the military (extremely cheap per byte), and far behind them would be petrochemical and mining
There is a very good read about their 6 streams of 11 LEO satellites zooming around the globe.
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-iridium-5615034/?no-ist
nope, it’s the trucking industry, they have one of those gizmo in every trailer and every tractor (at least in some countries).
IIRC,Some trucking companies in the USA, use meteor scatter for tracking their inventory.
It looks like it might be a bit bulky, but gps position every other hour or so from one of those balloon-around-the-world experiments would be cool, and not all that expensive.
“shield the world’s first signal proof headwear” so they protect your brain from 5 sides from EM waves, what about the part of your head with less bone cover and the ganglia outside your brain – the autonomic nervous system is big. They should be making a Onesie :) something like this http://zapatopi.net/blog/the_atlantic-2015-11.blog.jpg
Stupid people will believe anything. These are the same morons that believe that their microwave oven is putting out “dangerous radiation” but don’t take issue with holding a 2.4 GHz cell phone directly to the side of their heads. Someone is going to make a lot of money at the expense of people who aren’t smart enough to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Ehh… 2.4GHz cellphone.. Wouldn’t that be a cordless phone? I don’t think there’s any cellphones on the 2400 band due to the “unregulated” usage of that band, but Sprint apparently have one at 2500.
Most modern cellphones are actually smartphones with wifi.
Add bluetooth with it. Stupid people doesn’t know either that leaving everything on is sucking all the battery (oh nooooo, my phone can’t stand more than half a day with a full charge)
Sorry but you are meant to use devices, and you can complain if they only work for a reasonable time if you turn them off and put them in a cupboard. Because what the hell is the use of something if you can’t use it?
Also, here:
http://www.lessemf.com — from baseball caps to underwear. They also sell conductive fabric, in case you’d like to roll your own.
Underwear? Well now you’re talking!
B^)
The thing i like most about the headwear is that it’s made of 200% material. “100% cotton, 100% signal proof silver fabric”
Check out “RF suit” images.100% coverage for 100% wavelength protection.
Goes great with a Daft Punk helmet, and protects you from bee stings too.
Don’t need a fancy signal proof headwear, made my own.
http://goinvade.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/VintageMardiGrasCostumes_no.-13_alien-kids.jpg
i think that’s for receiving transmissions, not blocking them ;D
It sucks up all the signals then grounds them, didn’t you see the ground wire?
Awman. That Iridium modem uses the 9602. That thing is bulky. My company uses those on a carrier board developed by an outside party. Not sure if the outside company would sell but i think we pay about 250. The really sweet version is the newer Iridium 9603. That thing is way smaller. Check it out https://www.iridium.com/products/details/iridium-9603.
Also Iridium is really good for remote areas where cellphones might not work. Think rural boonies where the only thing that is around is a bunch of cows with eartags. We use a very tightly packed binary formula to transmit that data. Works but we cant report as much or as often as we can over Cell network.
I use a scalpel to remove the LED strip coating. Cut along the pads and peel the small part off. It comes of quite easy. No power tools needed
This sounds strangely satisfying. Need to peel some LED strip :!
Don’t you mean “you need to strip some strip”? B^)
the existence of zero point transmissions or some type of quantum entanglement modem renders this satellite modem service obsolete. (it’s tin foil hat time and there is a void that needs to be filled with tinfoily commentary). on the topic of tinfoil hats.. your spine makes a wonderful antenna, especially paired with the entire nervous system that is left unshielded. Truth already mentioned this.
‘spinal cord’ (antenna). this hat is just impeding the transmissions emanating from your neurotransmitters, so that we can’t hear your thoughts. If that is what you fear, us hearing your thoughts, you should probably pledge at least $33 to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/856842557/shield-the-world-s-first-signal-proof-headwear
Nope. Feel free to read away. Do not contact me to express any feelings of outrage or offense you may experience due to said reading. $50 to the first person who can read the hidden code in my head and report back to me with it…
“Or even on the first date.”
Please let this catch on. That way if I see someone wearing one I know to STEER CLEAR.
If you know where to look, you can get cheaper bare Iridium modules. All of these modules run on the Iridium Short-Burst Data service. As the name implies, this isn’t for sending MBs of data at a time. It’s more of an SMS vibe to it, and if anything I’d almost recommend for most use cases testing a design locally with a GSM module sending SMSes out so you can get a feel for how much data you can push over Iridium in a packet.
I picked up two NAL Research Shout Nano tracker devices for $75 from eBay – inside each was a bare Iridium 9601. Add my own header to mate to the connector, apply power and an MCU… and boom.
I *believe* NAL Research will also sell you Iridium SBD service as well for around the same rates (if not better than Rock’s rates).
That signal proof stuff is actually usable, you wear a hat that can block signals, no use normally, but comes a time you need privacy you don’t need to toss your expensive ihone, just take off the hat, put the iphone in it, et voilà,
Pretty much a must-have