{"id":89227,"date":"2019-04-04T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T22:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T22:02:47","slug":"building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage","title":{"rendered":"Building a Hardware Store Faraday Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most Hackaday readers are no doubt familiar with the Faraday cage, at least in name, and nearly everyone owns one: if you\u2019ve ever stood watching a bag of popcorn slowly revolve inside of a microwave, you\u2019be seen Michael Faraday\u2019s 1836 invention in action. Yet despite being such a well known device, the average hacker still doesn\u2019t have one in their arsenal. But why?<\/p>\n<p>It could be that there\u2019s a certain mystique about Faraday cages, an assumption that their construction requires techniques or materials outside the realm of the home hacker. While it\u2019s true that building a <em>perfect<\/em> Faraday cage for a given frequency involves math and careful attention to detail, putting together a simple model for general purpose use and experimentation turns out to be quick and easy.<\/p>\n<p>As an exercise in minimalist hacking I recently built a basic Faraday cage out of materials sourced from Home Depot, and thought it would be interesting to not only describe its construction but give some ideas as to how one can put it to practical use in the home lab. While it\u2019s hardly a perfect specimen, it clearly works, and it didn\u2019t take anything that can\u2019t be sourced locally pretty much anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/09\/26\/building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2018\/09\/26\/building-a-hardware-store-faraday-cage\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Hackaday readers are no doubt familiar with the Faraday cage, at least in name, and nearly everyone owns one: if you\u2019ve ever stood watching a bag of popcorn slowly revolve inside of a microwave, you\u2019be seen Michael Faraday\u2019s 1836 invention in action. Yet despite being such a well known device, the average hacker still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1495,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-health","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}