Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a practical explanation of microwave hazards and shielding, and of using microwave ovens safely without an enclosure.
What it is
Tech Ingredients demonstrates how microwaves work and how they affect objects at range, then shows ways to defend against them. It includes a correction about rectifier output frequency.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends NavinF · 2023-09 · on “French regulators order Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12”
At the power levels we're talking about (5W)? Of course I would. The effects are well known: It heats your hands up at 5 joules per second. Incidentally, Tech Ingredients has a great video on using microwave ovens without an enclosure and how to block similar directed energy weapons that use a lot more than 5W: [this video]
Recommends amatecha · 2025-03 · on “Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia”
Probably also worth watching a related video from the same channel: "Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1" [this video]
Cites silent_speech · 2022-04 · on “Don’t Cook Yourself with RF Energy”
If your device is hacked at the firmware level, it can be turned into a microwave weapon and used against you. (My hypothesis of the cause of Havana Syndrome: hacked cell transmitters beaming microwave at targets.) Tech Ingredients (YouTube creator) made an instructional video about how microwaves work and how to defend against them: " [this video] ".