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Coin shrinking with high voltage in slow motion

Posted in dominoes on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »

Coin Shrinking from Jeremy Ruhland on Vimeo.

Check out Bert Hickman’s “Makin’ Small Change” and Shrinker Gallery
Discharging about 10 kV (15,000 joules!) from enormous 300 µF capacitors the team at Hackerbot Labs “Turn half dollars into quarters! Turn quarters into dimes! Turn dimes into little semi-molten balls of metal!” with their custom built apparatus through a [...]

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Your Very Own Spy Coin!

Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2007 No Comments »

Poppy quarter’ behind spy coin alert
An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned.
The harmless “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada [...]

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