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cell phones have this neat little 'buzzer' in them to alert you during meetings. It's a little motor with an excentric weight attached to them, when the motor spins the weight will cause the phone to vibrate.

This is almost tailor made to set stuff off by remote. Beta test using the ringer, when it's all good make it hot by switching your profile to 'silent'.




cell phones have this neat little 'buzzer' in them to alert you during meetings. It's a little motor with an excentric weight attached to them, when the motor spins the weight will cause the phone to vibrate

The favored method of IED detonation was just to have the attach a small spool of thread to the motor and have it pull a thread to activate something. Not sure what the favored method is now.


That was a pretty lucky guess then. I swear I never blew anything up, but I love to tinker with stuff. Hooking up a small relay to the motor outputs or using the motor directly seemed like the obvious thing to do.


Ah, good explanation! That certainly seems like the path of least resistance.




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