[Denver Keith]

Originally Posted by ShelledPants

Bringing this thread back into the daylight.

I went down to the local photo developing store and asked if I could have all of the used cameras they throw away. They had one to give me on the spot and told me to come back tomorrow and pick up the likely ten or so that will come in from the days work.

I got back to work and began tearing into the camera. The circut is very VERY hackable. Within the hour I had a working prototype, with impact switch (a pen spring, and the metal shell of an erasor from a pencil). I think with a little work I could cram four of these suckers into something about the size of an m4 magazine, two on each side, so when you throw it, two will always be facing upwards.

For now I'm tripping the charge button with a screw driver, but I'll be putting in a momentary switch for that, and an on/off switch for the battery (because if the battery is in, it will constantly charge the capacitor, which with my design means the impact trigger could set it off...)

The end design will have you: Pull the flash grenade/magazine-thing, push a button to turn it on, push another button to arm and then throw (the arming button gives you a good 3-5 seconds before the impact switch will allow the circut to fire the bulb. )

When I get home I'll post some pictures... Maybe start a how-to thread.

Hang on, have you actually activated one of these things? Or is this still theory?