Share your ‘I MacGyver’d it’ solutions


1. A few decades ago I got sick of not having a remote on my old Marantz receiver. I grabbed one of those extension handle light bulb changers. Worked like a charm (with a bit of tweaking).
2. Just yesterday I needed to raise my DVR. Found 4 orange juice bottle caps and 4 racquetballs. It got me wondering if this could be used to actually dampen vibration (or would the opposite occur)?

 

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I fought back against neighbors who blasted shitmusic from an outdoor stereo by using microwave oven parts in a homemade sheet-copper horn antenna to microwave and stop their stereo. I was in my last year of the coursework for my PhD in physics and math and used the university's expensive Mathematica software to optimize the dimensions of the horn antenna I designed. 

This was more than the statute of limitations of whatever laws I broke ago but when people try to report such things to the police they sound delusional so I was safe. 

I saw some MacGyver reruns my wife told me to watch and I would like to think MacGyver had a doctorate in the physics and/or engineering that made him able to invent his weapons.