Hacking Microwaves
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Hey Group,
I noticed that on Bob Blick's web site, he had the plans for
hacking a microwave oven, and turning it into a 2.45GHz transceiver.
Although, now he took it off because he thought that it was to dangerous.
What I am wanting to know is that if any body else might know how to hack
one, or if you might have his old plans.
I was able to find a fairly new microwave, and after I had got it he
did not have the plans any more. (or at least he would not give them out to
any body) I was originally going to see if I could make the transceiver and
try to hook it up to a Basic Stamp 2SX. Does any body now what I could do
with a microwave and a BSX? I know all of this sounds stupid, but I still
may get a project out of it yet!! If any body has any info at all, I would
appreciate it if you could send it my way. Like always, thanks in
advance.-Alex Burke
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I noticed that on Bob Blick's web site, he had the plans for
hacking a microwave oven, and turning it into a 2.45GHz transceiver.
Although, now he took it off because he thought that it was to dangerous.
What I am wanting to know is that if any body else might know how to hack
one, or if you might have his old plans.
I was able to find a fairly new microwave, and after I had got it he
did not have the plans any more. (or at least he would not give them out to
any body) I was originally going to see if I could make the transceiver and
try to hook it up to a Basic Stamp 2SX. Does any body now what I could do
with a microwave and a BSX? I know all of this sounds stupid, but I still
may get a project out of it yet!! If any body has any info at all, I would
appreciate it if you could send it my way. Like always, thanks in
advance.-Alex Burke
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I think Bob took it off for a valid reason.
One shouldn't mess with microwave ovens unless the modifications
have nothing to do with the microwave sections (i.e. light, keypad, etc.)
Messing with microwaves in general can be very dangerous for
several reasons, and if you are not a specially trained microwave
technician, you may just want to let this one go by. I know this can be
hard[noparse]:)[/noparse]
Just my opinion, have a nice evening,
Paul
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Alex Burke wrote:
> Hey Group,
>
> I noticed that on Bob Blick's web site, he had the plans for
> hacking a microwave oven, and turning it into a 2.45GHz transceiver.
> Although, now he took it off because he thought that it was to dangerous.
> What I am wanting to know is that if any body else might know how to hack
> one, or if you might have his old plans.
>
> I was able to find a fairly new microwave, and after I had got it he
> did not have the plans any more. (or at least he would not give them out to
> any body) I was originally going to see if I could make the transceiver and
> try to hook it up to a Basic Stamp 2SX. Does any body now what I could do
> with a microwave and a BSX? I know all of this sounds stupid, but I still
> may get a project out of it yet!! If any body has any info at all, I would
> appreciate it if you could send it my way. Like always, thanks in
> advance.-Alex Burke
>
>
>
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>
>
a few years back.
>
> I noticed that on Bob Blick's web site, he had the plans for
> hacking a microwave oven, and turning it into a 2.45GHz transceiver.
> Although, now he took it off because he thought that it was to dangerous.
> What I am wanting to know is that if any body else might know how to hack
> one, or if you might have his old plans.
>
> I was able to find a fairly new microwave, and after I had got it
> he
> did not have the plans any more. (or at least he would not give them out
> to any body) I was originally going to see if I could make the transceiver
> and try to hook it up to a Basic Stamp 2SX. Does any body now what I could
> do with a microwave and a BSX? I know all of this sounds stupid, but I
> still may get a project out of it yet!! If any body has any info at all, I
> would appreciate it if you could send it my way. Like always, thanks in
> advance.-Alex Burke
>
A microwave oven emits hundreds of watts of power at a frequency
that is designed to be most efficient (in terms of heating) to water.
Human beings are mostly water. This makes for a dangerous
project.
Transmitting data by microwave frequencies however, is very
interesting and quite safe -just don't use the internals of a
microwave oven.
Amateur Radio operators do alot of work with 10 GHz and the
gunplexers (microwave generating devices) are low power and
available on the surplus market (the older style industrial door
openeners at the supermarket, and really old alarm system motion
sensors are the most common sources).
Look in the ARRL's Handbook or one of the numerous microwave
books for details on this.
As far a Stamps go, data transmission at 10 GHz is certainly
interesting, but the main reason for doin this is for high-bandwidth,
full duplex transmissions -something no required (or possible,
really) with a Stamp.
Mark Hillier, VE6HVW
President, HVW Technologies Inc.
Canadian Distributors of Parallax Products and other Neat Stuff
Tel: +403-730-8603 Fax: +403-730-8903
http://www.hvwtech.com