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Richard Chapman | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> High Speed Photography tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

High Speed Photography

A few years ago I messed around a little with high-speed photography using a simple timer circuit to fire a flash a set time after a beam-detector spotted a drop of milk falling past it. It was quite fun, and I got some results that I quite liked, but there were a number of limitations with the approach, which led me to start a second project using a microcontroller for more accurate (and more repeatable) timings. I got as far as getting a prototype working, then the project stalled for a while due to an international move... When I tried to come back to it I couldn't remember how any of the wires fitted together - some had fallen out, and I had lost the source code.

A few days ago I started the project up again, this time taking a bit of care to build circuits that would stand (slightly) rougher handling and (hopefully) still be useable even after sitting in a drawer for a few months. I recreated the source, better this time.

I plan to try to document the project here, as well as displaying some of the results. As yet it's very much a work in progress. I've also put a few pictures from the previous incarnations of the project at the end of the gallery. I'm also hoping to do it in a blog/picture-a-day format - though whether I'll keep that up remains to be seen.