Turn Your Disposible Camera into a Stun Gun
What do you get when you mix cheap high voltage generating device and bored kids? The above video. Please, please, please do not make this and go shocking the family pet (or actually anyone for that matter).
From the site:
[The video] shows how to turn a camera into a Taser (actually it’s not a ‘Taser’ per se, it’s a contact stun gun, but anyway) using the flash circuit of the camera–the flash bulbs in cameras are xenon strobe lights and they work the same way neon signs and fluorescent lights do: there’s a tube of gas with electric contacts at either end of the tube, and when electricity conducts through the gas, the gas excites and emits light. Here’s the key: all gases have a VERY high resistance and really don’t want to conduct electricity–think of trying to get electricity to go through piece of green wood, it’s do-able but would require a LOT of juice–therefore you have to use a very high voltage to force that electricity through the gas: Any camera with a flash MUST have a high-voltage generating circuit on board, which means any camera with a flash can be quickly and easily made into a stun-gun…
