Build your own sound-activated strobe/flash

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Build your own sound-activated strobe/flash

Postby leek on Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:26 am

Saw this on Attack of the Show yesterday and thought it might appeal to some of the less electronically challenged people out there...

http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/strobe.pdf
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Postby gstark on Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:44 am

Nice.

Thanx for sharing, John.
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Postby xerubus on Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:45 am

thanks for that... looks very interesting.

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Postby avkomp on Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:43 am

I built a sound activated flash unit 30 odd years ago for high speed work.

it triggers any flash gun that has an x sync connection on it.

Havent used it for years and years but we produced some amazing stuff with it, in our schools darkroom where we smashed lightbulbs, burst balloons shot apples with air guns etc etc.

The circuit came from electronics today international or some other defunct magazine, maybe I should look around for the circuit to save brutalising a camera!!

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Postby wendellt on Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:08 pm

it's so technical, my head hurts
i think i read here that you can just download a patch for the sb800 firmware or buy some trinket on ebay to achieve this?
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Postby seeto.centric on Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:51 pm

sb800 has firmware?
how would you go about flashing the flash?

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Postby digitor on Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:47 pm

Oatley Electronics do a simple kit for this, it's only $19.

http://www.oatleyelectronics.com/kits/k061.html

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Postby spada on Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:44 pm

Oatley Electronics is only five mins from home , I will give it a try, thank Digitor to point out this. :)
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