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MacGyver Season 2 Episode 3 Science Notes: Roulette Wheel + Wire
Is there a better MacGyver image than his radio build at the beginning of the episode? I think not. Here is an image.
Could you actually build a radio from a snow mobile? I think yes. Really, radios aren’t actually that complicated. The only difficult part would be building an amplifier so that the signal generated from a voice is powerful enough to be detected by someone’s radio. If the snow mobile had any kind of radio (like for listening), you would have all the parts you would need.
Stun gun on slot machine
They call these hand held zap things stun guns, but they don’t shoot. You just have to hold them up to someone to shock them.
MacGyver needs a distraction so he takes the stun gun and uses it on a slot machine. After that, the guy playing wins.
Is this even possible? Possible, yes. Likely, no. The stun gun has high voltage that creates sparks. These sparks can damage electronic equipment-especially the super tiny transistors in a computer chip. So, it’s possible that the stun gun does something to cause a win.
However, these slot machines are built with tampering in mind. They need to be able to resist humans messing around with them to win. So, I doubt this would work. Also, if MacGyver zaps that…
