{"id":1973,"date":"2011-10-04T19:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2011-10-04T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T23:21:42","slug":"how-to-turn-your-am-radio-into-a-metal-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/how-to-turn-your-am-radio-into-a-metal-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn your AM radio into a metal detector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Really? This radio could find a missing toy?<\/p><\/div>\n

While watching Curious George<\/a> on PBS Kids with my four year old, I learned something. In the episode we viewed–“Curious George, Metal Detective”–George needs a metal detector to find a toy robot he’s lost in the sand, but the one he’s borrowed has run out of batteries.\u00a0 “How about making one?” his scientist friend suggests. Make <\/em>one? “It’s easy,” she explains: simply by taping an AM radio and calculator together, you can make your own metal detector. George tries it, and–lo and behold–finds his missing toy.<\/p>\n

Really?<\/em> I wondered. Was this PBS show feeding my skeptical children science fiction?<\/p>\n

I quickly googled the notion, and apparently, it works!\u00a0 Watch the video below for a tutorial on building your own\u00a0deluxe\u00a0model:
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