Wow, this old video from last year blew up a little bit out of nowhere, I'm really grateful to you all who are watching. Though, I have been getting quite a lot of comments and I wanted to address a couple topics regarding them. Firstly, I've been getting some comments about it's classification as an EMP generator, so is it an EMP? By the definition of an EMP to my knowledge, it certainly is. The device creates a high voltage in pulse waveform which the coil emits as a brief electromagnetic field. This occurs every time the circuit sparks, so it basically fires many weak EMPs in rapid succession, with some of those pulses being strong enough to mess with electronics. Given that, sure it's a shitty EMP, but it still counts as one. Still, enough of you brought it up that it's made me question my classification of it as such. Maybe I really am just wrong about what technically constitutes an EMP, but I'd appreciate some sources on that if you have them. Second, the toroidal ferrite core. I mentioned it very briefly, but I am and have always been aware that it weakens the strength of my EMP. Here's a story to help understand that decision: A few years ago when I was in high school, our small robotics club was adamant on bringing in some new members. Since we only had one robot to show off at the time, in a desperate attempt to have more showmanship in our interest meeting, they asked me to show off some random stuff I made at the time, one of those being an EMP (we're not gonna talk more about me carrying around an EMP device in high school). It had almost the exact same design and components as this one, just less well-put together and with the worst coil of all time (coils crossing over, sparks flying off of them). During our meeting presentation, as soon as I turned it on for our interested classmates from what I judged to be a safe distance (about 2 meters away), I returned to my fellow club members. The robot which had been working fine 2 seconds prior had suddenly shut down and we couldn't get it back on. My friend turned to me and said, "Jason, I think you knocked out Jeffery." From what I remember too, when we eventually did, the startup display was glitching and the program files had all apparently been wiped. It should be damn near impossible that my spark generator EMP could've even touched our robot from over 6 feet away, but our team was never able to think of another possibility. Realistically, while also unlikely, it might've been some kind of software glitch paired with one hell of a case of unlikely coincidence (hard to say since I'm not the one who programmed it). Still, after that experience, I've always been more paranoid working with pulsed electromagnetic fields since. If there is even a 0.01% chance that my EMP managed to reach that robot, I was not about to take that same chance with my only good camera. Therefore, I reduced the strength of the EMP by designing it with a coil that would have a much higher impedance. My goal with this video was to educate and demonstrate, not to achieve the most powerful device I could to end up on a government watchlist (I might save that goal for later. Dear NSA, that's a joke.)

The ferrite core of your toroidal coil is causing the overwhelming majority of the magnetic flux lines to stay contained within it rather than radiating out into space. This device would be dramatically more effective if you used a large diameter coil with no core.

need this for the new york subway for people with their bluetooth speakers.

There's a lot of jokes I would like to make, but I really want to keep being able to travel by plane.

We getting put on a watch list with this one 🔥 🔥 🔥

Bros posting “How to: felony edition” for all us and I respect that

if you get rid of that iron powder toroid core and reduce the number of turns of the coil, the current spike will have a larger amplitude and a faster rise time resulting in a greater effect

This looks cool, like an item you'd see in a video game - I'm imagining a survival-horror protagonist who needs one of these to get past a murderbot.

I'm fully aware that you added the toroidal core to trap most of the flux inside and only the leakage flux to do the job.. but hear me out, you can actually make it "directional" by putting the coil inside a copper or aluminium pipe, basically something non ferromagnetic.. also keep a considerable amount of air gap between the inner wall of the metal pipe and the coil. This is to improve the shielding in radial direction.. Now next up you can improve the coil structure, instead of making it toroidal which will trap most of the flux inside weakening the em wave.. you can just make it "horse shoe" shaped with the two poles open and facing forward.. that way, a short range but more powerful em wave can be generated.. Note that if u do like this then you'll need two separate copper/aluminium shielding pipes for directing the em wave forward. That's all I can think of. Thanks for reading your build is great though.. good work👍

Cool project, great vid, loved the music. You had me at the 3D printed box. 👍

the coil around the toroid is concentrating the magnetic field, that is what´s making it inefficient. you want the field to spread outwards, the ferrite toroid keeps it inwards

Bro, this is pretty cool. I thought making EMP is quite hard. This might be quite weak , but it proves that the concept works. Great work!, +1 subscriber for you!

Before building anything you need to understand the underlying physics. This will make your engineering endeavors far easier and rewarding.

A robot lobotomy taser, incredible!

Yes, thank you! Now I can finally prank my friend with the pacemaker

Beautiful work my friend.

I recommend using an aluminum or copper case for more powerful EMP devices. I also recommend sealing it with any air-tight sealant, silicone rubber will suffice.

Good job, dude! You deserve far more attention

I made a prototype of something like this. Good to know it would have worked.

Pretty sure this is highly illegal and I love it. I remember trying to find plans for cell phone jammers and learning that it would be illegal to walk around with one in public. Similar reasons for this project. Keep spreading that knowledge :-)

Amazing how even simple electronics have error handling software to deal with unexpected stuff.

WE DISABLING THEM PIGEONS WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🐦🐦🐦🐦

Amazing electromagnetic pulse generator

This is great! Please use your device to test anti-EMP bags, pouches, and cases.

Gotta love those cold solder joints.

I used to like vaping because the devices look so cool but this is way cooler than that now that I quit

Awesome! New sub! Can you by any chance upload a more detailed video or description on how to build the circuit aspect of things? I'm planning to make one of these myself based off your design! Let me know about and learning resources you know related to its circuitry please!

Would you have any recommendations on books or pdf to bring my knowledge up to speed on projects like this

Nice job!

Thank you I’ve been trying to understand in my little mind how this works

No this is no EMP pulse as known from the scifi movies, but rather a strong electrical magnet that could easily erase ROM memory in various devices, thus effectively damaging the firmware. There is something like EMP pulse when a hydrogen bomb is deployed over the city inducing a blackout of non-protected electrical devices, which is majority of commercial electronics.

This is what researching engineering as a career in high school does to an mf’s recommended. Next it’ll probably be pipe bomb tutorials or some shit

Is it possible to make one strong enough I can use it from my room to fry car radios when their bass vibrates the whole neighborhood?

Just a simple question that I can clearly see that you have connected one wire with the Coile (I mean the High Voltage generator wire with the Coile) but where you have connected the other wire ?

Do you think you could make a list for all the parts you need. This is dope 👌

Imagine what this could do if you upscaled the whole project to use a car battery.

Very Cool, I don't plan on making it because I'd have the luck to break my devices with it.

Thanks schizo

Can you test its effects on radio frequencies?

Now make a massive one and you can take out the whole grid

This is marketable. Since everybody is carrying around an AI device these days I kind of want to carry around a small EMP device that shuts off the camera and they're listening equipment when they're near me because I have a right to not be tracked.

“I promise mom, it’s for a school project”

That was so dope! Very simple to build than I excepted tbh lol you got a subscriber!

Dude, you must be our technician when _the moment_ comes.

I wish my spare time projects were nearly as cool

how do you measure the emf at the copper coil to make sure its effective BEFORE using it on something e.g with a multimeter

Ah yes, this will come in handy in the technodystopia

neat bbq lighter, no quarts requires, just lp gas and a rack of ribs

Does this distribute the field in all directions? Or does it focus it forward of the copper coil?

Verry cool! Please, make a test on cameras , especialy on cameras that can be hidden in hotels or air bnb places! We dont have a solution for this matter yet!

New subscriber always watching your videos❤😊

Also what kind of casing have you put around the voltage transformer?

A good defense against machines in the future

quck Q . a transformer is an AC AC device and the coil afterwards works on AC as well , while you are feeding it DC, where are you doing an DC-AC conversion before that?

Dang your voice made me do a double take. It's so deep now.

Could you make one for destroying hidden cameras, like the ones people put in hotels or restrooms. Then starting a company based on destroying hidden cameras

Theory on what it would do to a BCI ? Stentrod or Neuralink ? Would it be temporary as well ?

Yeah, I'm not taking you to a casino

I'm interested if it's strong enough to power an x-ray tube.

did I miss the schematic drawing somewhere? with specific detail on spark gap length and the Toroid wind and inductance but it looks like a big series circuit on the output of the Marx Generator module. I have a Marx 'gun' with a 12x12mm microswitch that keeps burning out although its on the input side of the marx gen. in series with an 18650 (likely instantaneous current issues)

This reminds me of that time I tased some LCD clocks and they stopped working.

Will this work on a pacemaker through walls from at least 10 m away? just curious

Grounding at the connector prevents the damage. Which weve done for like ever.

Congrats, now you and everyone that interacts with this video is on a watchlist 😂

Whipping this out during the on computer SAT

Go go gadget, electronic warfare concealed carry

wellp. looks like i found a use for a few of those old vapes i have..

The fluke meter just got violated so hard😵

If it was really EMP device it would fry its own controlling circuit.

an air core on the torus would be stronger i think the iron core eats most of the magnetic field?

Can you make one as strong as the science vessel on StarCraft?

how does that thing not destroy its own charging circuit if its not wrapped in a metal cage or metal box?

Coloca lo em uma angulo da pra ler as medidas de tensao que foram induzidas. Em outro angulo da pra reiniciar o aparelho medidor. E no medidor digital wasion de energia eletrica? Qual seria o comportamento.

can you use to to disable things like magnetic locks in entrances of apartment blocks?

1:53 hidden stories theme

is the laptop broken? or is it just temporary?

do you have also a Guide for how to make that maybe very useful tool? do you maybe also know someone in Deutschland who is Electrician ?

Am I on a list for watching this now?

Hope StyroPyro doesn't see this.

I need to make this in a shape of a sonic screwdriver

I need one of these for my neighbors stereo...

nice video men

How much inertial dampening or flux capacitance can this thing output?

2:58 FBI: Put him on the list

A schizo walks into a pub.... The bartender says get out of here. Then the power goes out and all of the phones shutdown. 😆

Bout to start a real life need for speed race

I have no idea who yt thinks i am but im invested into this shi

toroidal core makes no sense to me, did you gap it? don't understand why confining the magnetic part

Could you please post the wiring diagram?

Глушилка калькуляторов? Глушкал или Счетобой?

I want to draw my BP's like you they are awesome

Is there a diagram i could follow please

You basically made a single stage Marx bank that induces a that coil, pretty neat

Hello can you tell me what circuits you used please

Let’s prank grandpa!

when making this would you leave a gap in the pin casing for the sparks?

I just want to point out that KZfaq recommended me this video. That is all

Isn't the reactance of the wound toroid feeding most of the energy into hysteresis loss in the toroid core? I'm assuming you were trying to make sort of a poor-man's van de graaff generator toroid.

The FCC wants to know your location 😅

is the transformer just the external wiring?