On 04.21.09, In How To, by Household Hacker
The Mythbusters take a crack at one of our older “hacks”. However, they fail to use a shiny enough penny. Take a look.
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[...] about Hi – Def as of April 20, 2009 – dvdnewsroom.com 04/21/2009 Adam Berg’s “Carousel” Mythbusters: Hi-Def speaker for under a buck! – householdhacker.com 04/21/2009 The Mythbusters take a crack at one of our older “hacks”. [...]
lol look how mad u made Tory
“However, they fail to use a shiny enough penny…”
You’ve been busted! Did people really fall for this BS? You can’t get motion when the circuit lacks the coil or magnet to create movement. It doesn’t matter how shiny the penny is. The current travels through the penny and back to the amp in the music device without causing any motion. Give it up man!
Tori wired it up incorrectly.
One lead needs to be connected to the tinfoil, while the other lead is connected to the top of the penny.
Otherwise the shortest path of electricity is simply across the surface of the penny and little to no energy is distributed to the tinfoil.
You Fail!!!
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I don’t know who would fall for this 2nd grade bullshit, but the person who came up with this is a complete fucking retard…You need to get a fucking life and if you’re going to post some shit on the internet…at least make it half ass believable…FUCKING RETARD!!!!!
Oh yea and wjaspers…you twice as fucking stupid for backing him up…
This vid is funny to me because I’m listening to it on my low-cost high-def speakers. Also maybe Mythbusters should be doing some B2B instead of buying all their shit peacemeal at radio shack. $10 for a jack? That’s like a monthly wage for the coolie who makes those all day.
heres the thing, why would HHHAcker put this on their website if its bad? Also, they forgot how pennie made after 1982 contain around 90% zync, the ones before that contain a majority af copper, so thet oughta est that.
I did try an 1981 penny. I even made it shinyer with steel wool. Still nothing. Not even a buzz. I thick that HH should just admit they were bored one afternoon and couldn’t think of anything else to do.
u would have a better chance useing a mini speaker (kip kay instructional vid) and puting it in a big plastic bol(srry cant spell) coverd with ceram rap to increase the vibration
well tori lied about you telling a lie because you sayed an OLD headset with wire coming out of it.
Yeh I Tryed Your Paper Plate Thing And It Dident Work out For Me Ether
And you fail due to ignorance against major electrophysical laws.
1.) There is no way to get a penny to virbration by applying current to it – no matter how shiny it is. The penny just works as a resistor and even that isn’t a job he does well, because it is made of copper and this a fairly good conductor. In fact you are producing a nice and clean SHORT CIRCUIT which could possibly damage your mp3, computer or whatever.
2.) Even it this WOULD work, you used the wrong cables to do it -> you used the 2 inner cables which are carrying the two stereo-tracks (yeah … headphones are made of TWO speakers), what leaves you with 2 similar alternating signals. In laws of acoustic and electronic those two erase each other.
3.) Even if you WOULD have wired it correctly, those 1,5 Volts coming from a regular headphone-jack would be simply be waaay to silent for hearing purposes. Example: If you would like to have about 1,5 Watts (which can’t produce such a loud sound), you’d have to have a current of 1 Ampere (!). If through that cable would flow something with 1,5V and 1A (which eqzals 1,5 Watts), you would soon have your nose filled with the tasty smoke of a melting insulator and a burning wire. (Don’t worry: no mp3-player could reach a current like 1 A).
4.) If everything would work (ignoring those physical laws, ignoring the fact that the signal coming from the headphone-jack is to silent, ignoring the wrong cable-job), It would sound like totally crap – so there is no way to call this a HighDefinition-Audio-Speaker.
@bikerxgames540: You sound like you’re all mad because you fell for it =) Your average person who sees this video wouldn’t be so pissed off. Cool it, and try to come up with better lies ^^ Yelling at people who are never gonna read what you have to say doesn’t make you cool, in fact, you just look like more of a jerk lying and calling them fucking retards.
As for something relevant, I just tried this one day out of boredom. Cut up the wire from some old headphones and tested it. It was fun =P Didn’t work but oh well.
dude i think you used ur pc and that might be powerful enough for that type of speaker
The speakers dont even work. ived tried and its A load of bs.
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If you really understand how a speaker works, this doesn’t make a lot of sense. Actual speakers pass current through a coil of wire causing a nearby magnet to vibrate. This vibrating magnet is attached to a diaphragm which amplifies and produces air vibrations and creates the sound that you hear. Nice try, but not very well thought out.
Okay I’m in school to become an engineer; this would never work.
You guys have some potential to be really popular.
Please stop mixing bullshit and serious cool stuff.