Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 04

HOMEMADE STROBE PHOTOGRAPHY

By Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson

Pictures of high-speed events such as popping balloons, breaking glass, and splashing liquids reveal interesting structures not visible to the naked eye. You can take your own highspeed photos to capture these ephemeral events.

Set up: p.108 Make it: p.109 Use it: p.116

Photography by Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson

JUMPIN’ JACKED FLASH

We built a strobe flash out of a Kodak disposable camera and then designed a circuit that triggers the flash when it detects a sound or other measurable event. The strobe flash will freeze motion!

We use a digital camera set for a long exposure ...