Taking Apart My Toaster
It’s been said that every great bomb maker eventually gets bit by their craft. Well my friends, It would seem my craft has finally bitten me. While perusing the internet the other night I found a YouTube video about a bunch of friends who figured out how to intercept the radios that drive thru’s use, and broadcast back on the same frequency. If that explanation was too nerdy for you, They can pretend they are working inside said drive thru, whilst being no where near that place. The potential for hilarity is huge.
Of course when they said that they’ll instruct on how to make the radio to do this, and that all you need were some simple parts, I was ecstatic. I immediately set to acquiring the crystal necessary to do this. The video suggested that these crystals were available in any toaster made after the late 1980’s. So, I set about to tearing apart my toaster. My roomate was just as excited about the concept, and volunteered his toaster. The video said to carefully disassemble the toaster. We tore this poor fucker limb from limb, mercilessly, only to find; there was no crystal inside. So I start taking apart my toaster, a little more carefully. No crystal. So I went back to the internet, and did some more reading. On one of the comments, on some random YouTube video I found a guy saying, “Wow, this is clever. I actually got the tools ready to take apart my toaster until I thought … Why would a DIGITAL radio have an analog component? Why would a TOASTER have a crystal used for tone creation?” Then it started to dawn on me… I’ve been hoaxed. Someone has taken what I love to do to others, and made me the victim! The problem was, I think it’s hilarious, and it’s only encouraged me to “up the ante”.
When they said in the video that they will be outlining how to make this radio, I was so hooked. Here is the video that got me. Watch for a minute or two, it’s very convincing, even if you know better. The end result is still the same: I’m down one toaster.