As an exercise in minimalist hacking I recently built a basic Faraday cage out of materials sourced from Home Depot, and thought it would be interesting to not only describe its construction but ...

However, a compass does work inside a Faraday cage because the cage does not block the earth's magnetic field. Constructed of a metal mesh, current is conducted on the cage itself. It was invented ...

Also called a Faraday shield. Named after physicist Michael Faraday, a Faraday Cage is an enclosure formed of conductive material, or by a mesh of conductive material, that blocks out external static ...