Feb 28, 2016
The new board I ordered from Oshpark just came in: It’s a comparator for high-speed photography! Once populated, you plug a camera flash (or shutter) controller into one side, a microphone into the other, and when the mic picks up a loud sound it instantaneously signals the camera to take a picture. You can either delay the shot in circuitry (using the 9 rows of proto-pins), or simply move the mic farther away and calculate delay based on the speed of sound (very roughly 1ft distance per millisecond of delay). Now all I need are some fluorescent tubes to smash, or some tube televisions to explode, or... well, the possibilities are endless but pretty much all of them involve things exploding or getting hit with a hammer.
