Last year, the RSGB was approached by the BBC to find experts to contribute to its planned series \u2018The Secret Genius of Modern Life\u2019.<\/p>\n
For episode one, which takes a look at the bank card, Neil Smith, G4DBN re-created the Great Seal Bug \u2013 a wooden seal, gifted to the US embassy in Moscow in 1945, and which contained a covert listening device. The technology developed for the bug was an early example of RFID, which is what allows contactless card payments to work.<\/p>\n
Neil has now released a series of fascinating videos on his YouTube channel which explain the history of the Bug as well as the mechanical design and machining needed to re-create it.<\/p>\n
You can find the videos in Neil’s playlist on \u2018Machining and Microwaves\u2019<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0and watch the original BBC Two programme on BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 this episode is available for a further seven months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last year, the RSGB was approached by the BBC to find experts to contribute to its planned series \u2018The Secret Genius of Modern Life\u2019. For episode one, which takes a look at the bank card, Neil Smith, G4DBN re-created the Great Seal Bug \u2013 a wooden seal, gifted to the US embassy in Moscow in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}