Ever noticed a painted yellow line in the parking lot around many supermarkets and retail stores? The magic yellow line emits a signal that causes carts to stop dead in their tracks, preventing carts from leaving the parking lot.
Now you can build your own portable yellow line-- with up to a 20 foot range. Need I say more? Hint: it works inside the store.
Disclaimer: This is not an easy project. It will require knowledge of circuits, soldering, social engineering, and a tiny bit of PIC microcontroller stuff. High power is involved, and if you mess up, you might get burned, caught on fire, or arrested-- most likely all three. Always use an appropriate amperage fuse to prevent a short from becoming a much bigger problem. This project is also fairly expensive. The parts will cost about 65 bucks. Batteries with some kick will run 20-30 bucks, and a single PCB is about 60 bucks. They get a lot cheaper if you buy multiples for your friends.
We would be thrilled to sell kits, and it would certainly make the components cheaper and easier to get, but frankly, we're a little worried about the possibility of civil action. We likewise recommend that no one else sells kits commercially.
In order to remain as anonymous as possible, we have utilized Tor. Tor is a network anonymizer which sends packets through a convoluted network to its destination in order to avoid tracing. We aren't lawyers, and who knows what lawyers are capable of these days, especially with things like the DMCA and recent controversy over data retention requirements likely to be instituted in the EU.
With the warnings out of the way... In the wise words of Norm Abram, "Be sure to read, understand, and follow all the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how to use your power tools properly will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury. And remember this: there is no more important safety rule than to wear these-- safety glasses. Let's get started on today's project."
Now you can build your own portable yellow line-- with up to a 20 foot range. Need I say more? Hint: it works inside the store.
Disclaimer: This is not an easy project. It will require knowledge of circuits, soldering, social engineering, and a tiny bit of PIC microcontroller stuff. High power is involved, and if you mess up, you might get burned, caught on fire, or arrested-- most likely all three. Always use an appropriate amperage fuse to prevent a short from becoming a much bigger problem. This project is also fairly expensive. The parts will cost about 65 bucks. Batteries with some kick will run 20-30 bucks, and a single PCB is about 60 bucks. They get a lot cheaper if you buy multiples for your friends.
We would be thrilled to sell kits, and it would certainly make the components cheaper and easier to get, but frankly, we're a little worried about the possibility of civil action. We likewise recommend that no one else sells kits commercially.
In order to remain as anonymous as possible, we have utilized Tor. Tor is a network anonymizer which sends packets through a convoluted network to its destination in order to avoid tracing. We aren't lawyers, and who knows what lawyers are capable of these days, especially with things like the DMCA and recent controversy over data retention requirements likely to be instituted in the EU.
With the warnings out of the way... In the wise words of Norm Abram, "Be sure to read, understand, and follow all the safety rules that come with your power tools. Knowing how to use your power tools properly will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury. And remember this: there is no more important safety rule than to wear these-- safety glasses. Let's get started on today's project."
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The two major shopping cart theft prevention systems are called CAPS and the GS2. From our escapades, we have found the GS2 system is far more effective at actually stopping carts on smooth ground. It also has a longer range (!) and a more sophisticated locking and unlocking signal. Best of all, it can be reset remotely, meaning double the fun as you play "red light/green light" with unsuspecting customers.
The picture below is of the GS2 wheel, found only at your finer supermarkets.
The picture below is of the GS2 wheel, found only at your finer supermarkets.
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of all things that are stolen a shopping cart why.
If you take an old one and slide it over a magnet lots of times, in the same direction it will set of the alarm again (re magnetizes it) If you slide ti back and forth a lot of times it wont set of the alarm (demagnetizes it)