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Things like that were used to cheat slot machines http://empjammer.com/how-a-emp-jammer-working http://empjammer.com/how-a-emp-jammer-working
by tlarkworthy 10y ago
Things like that were used to cheat slot machines http://empjammer.com/how-a-emp-jammer-working http://empjammer.com/how-a-emp-jammer-working
- jacquesm 10y agoMuch cheaper to use an electric gas lighter. That's what we used to test on stuff that was supposed to be reliable and it is amazing how hard it is to defend against it. If you could survive 10 seconds or more without a latch losing state or some other bitflip then it was usually a pretty good job. Even so, this required physical contact to something made of metal on the machine (even if most of it is properly grounded there always is some exposed metal that isn't). I hope the engineering on that product is better than the English, it is barely understandable.
- bigiain 10y agoHeh - showing my age here, but I remember using gas lighters (stolen from school heaters) to zap free game credits into Asteroids machines...
- emmelaich 10y agoSame. And pinball machines and others. Feel pretty bad about it now, because I probably destroyed a few IC boards.
- ars 10y agoWhat did you do? Just heat it up till it does "something"?
- bigiain 10y agoJust zap some of the metal around the coin slot until it either crashed or gave you free games. (These were the piezo spark-ignitors, not pilot flames...)
- ghostDancer 10y agoThanks for reminding it to me , i've been sent out from some arcades for doing it, and the owner of the arcade hearing the clicks.
- joezydeco 10y agoESD is not EMP.
- Animats 10y agoHere's the Nevada Gaming Commission's answer to that.[1] More stuff should have security standards like this. [1] http://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2919 http://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=29...