DIY Lightning strobe for Halloween projects

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DIY Lightning strobe for Halloween projects

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Our friends at Design News have a new “Gadget Freak” how-to, this one is for Halloween, a lightning strobe! – “When the local church needed storm effects for a skit, sound man Dick Neubert found the thunder on the Internet and added “lightning” with a photoflash strobe. He used an uncommitted output from the mixing board to trigger the strobe with the sound signal via a simple interface. The strobe places 300V across SCR1, which discharges this into the trigger coil to fire the tube. In all, this common strobe design will deliver some very uncommon effects for your next Halloween spookfest.”Link.

Related:

  • MAKE Halloween projects – Link.
  • MAKE Halloween archives – Link.

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Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests – Link.

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