Build your own Brain Assailant

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Jay writes - "For those of you unfamiliar, Thinkgeek sells a device called the "mind molestor". the idea is simple. You hide the device in the home of someone you loathe. It then emits a beep once every 3 minutes until the battery dies or the victim burns their house down to stop the relentless beeping. Cool concept, right? Sure, but at $25 a piece its not exactly something you would want to leave behind. They dont even include a battery, But i did some figuring, and adding in a battery would just about double their manufacturing costs on the device. Thats right, This thing shouldnt cost much more than $2 to mass produce." [via] - Link.

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Posted by: SherKahn on April 3, 2006 at 1:01 PM

to save space couldn't you use a C3032 medallion battery for the same effect and make it easier to hide


Posted by: SherKahn on April 3, 2006 at 1:01 PM

to save space couldn't you use a C3032 medallion battery for the same effect and make it easier to hide


Posted by: SherKahn on April 3, 2006 at 1:02 PM

couldn't you use a C3032 battery to use less space


Posted by: StormyWetDry on April 3, 2006 at 2:01 PM

You could also save space by only commenting once...


Posted by: Vermin on April 3, 2006 at 3:15 PM

Making it deactivate for a period after detecting a noise or light change would make it impossible to find.


Posted by: chadvavra on April 4, 2006 at 7:39 AM

Just don't use a pvc pipe for the casing.

I made one of these in '92 that landed me at the police station for a day explaining myself (and hopefully justifying their use of the metro bomb squad, airport scanner and a sniper w/rifle to shoot the end off it.)


Posted by: chadvavra on April 4, 2006 at 7:43 AM

Just don't use a pvc pipe for the casing.

I made one of these in '92 that landed me at the police station for a day explaining myself (and hopefully justifying their use of the metro bomb squad, airport scanner and a sniper w/rifle to shoot the end off it.)


Posted by: Russtang on April 4, 2006 at 9:02 AM

Does anyone else notice a ton of dupe comments at this site?

Maybe posters are expecting their comment at the bottom of the page (like they see ar every other site on the planet)?


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