Thor Fan Creates Real-Life Mjolnir Using Electromagnets And Fingerprint Scanner

Pan’s magnet is so strong that once it’s set down on a metal surface is can’t be budged by anyone other than the chosen one – himself. YouTube user, Sufficiently Advanced, has created that thumbprint scanning Mjolnir just like Stark suspected.

The electrical engineer also used an Arduino Pro Mini microcontroller board and four 12v batteries, all contained within the head of the hammer, in the construction. Thus, when he puts his hands around the hammer, the fingerprint scanner authenticates his identity and turns the electromagnet off.

The powerful electromagnet is actually scavenged from an old microwave oven.

Norse legend and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” mythology states that only the god of thunder, lightning, agriculture and fertility is worthy enough to pick it up. Even though it only works on manhole covers and big sheets of steel, it’s still pretty amusing to watch people struggle to get it off the ground. So long as the hammer rests on a metal surface, it’s basically impossible to lift without a few kind of major machinery.

It’s safe to say, Sufficiently Advanced is worthy of a subscription.

In the end, one man figured out how to defeat the mechanism and lift Thor’s hammer. Then it switches off again when he moves his thumb over the sensor, letting Pan to lift the hammer.