Fun with Disposable Cameras
Ben and I had fun with the disposable camera flash units; both using the sound/light trigger and just ripping into the cameras and playing with the caps directly.
The first shot is of a pinball being dropped on a hard drive platter. 2.5″ hard drive platters are sometimes made of glass. Totally blown out exposure. Looks pretty cool, but I think I could do better, I’m just out of platters about now (and cleaning up glass shards is unpleasant).
The obligatory water splash…
Had to do it. It is actually a hard drive platter being dropped in a plate of water. Has potential. I need to use a colored water and possibly adjust the flash position.
The splash in the middle is actually water being ejected through the hole in the middle of the drive platter.
Apparently, disposable flash mechanisms don’t really like it when you start discharging the cap through things other than the flash tube. Like, discharging it through one of the transistors on the board.
Magic smoke got out, board work no more. But the capacitor did. So we pulled it and charged it off another board.
A slice of time so small that it makes a moment of peace prior to the metal bits flying everywhere. Sounded cool, too.
And, of course, when futzing with charged capacitors, there is also the obligatory spark photo…