He kind of lost me at aluminum foil.
A Faraday cage is simple, you don't need some expensive kit. Just buy some metal screen (like screen door screen). Preferably use a metal that's highly conductive (I'm partial to brass). Then fold it up into a bag that is surrounded on all sides like an envelope or a burrito. Finally Use a needle and thread to tie the corners to keep the whole thing from falling apart.
I don't mind paying the convenience fee of a kit for the most part. I also don't ever really buy them. Just for exploring and such usually.
But that's a great point to as well.
With a name like I thought you'd appreciate the process.
100s if not 1000s (at least) of things you can DIY. Picking your battles at times and just paying a convenience fee at times is something I don't mind. Might want to work on something else and just check something like that out and DIY with a kit rather than DIY from scratch. DIY faraday cages from scratch vs a DIY faraday cage kit is something I'd want to do one day. It depends on what it is and I do on many things enjoy the process. I just might want to do something else more though and save the time it comes from researching all the materials specifically to build a custom scratch faraday cage.
You are definitely right on that though.
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