In case you haven't noticed, I have a very deep respect for electricity. Not just because it has the potential to send us into an epileptic episode or fry our hair or kill us just because we failed to harness it correctly, but because of the thin line it draws between innocently conventional and downright dangerous.
Let me know how your cat likes the tropical climate
of your microwave.
The household items we use everyday to watch TV, dry our hair, listen to music, light our homes, and even open cans of tuna for Fluffy up there, are only two or three steps away from leaving us in a coma on our kitchen floor.
A homemade disposable camera/taser isn't particularly deadly to anyone not wearing a pacemaker, but it will shock you with an equivalent of about 300 volts. Guess what else? It only cost about $9.00 to make, and doesn't require anything more in depth than can be found in an 8th grade shop class.
You're friends won't see you running at them with what looks like a porcupine of electrical wires and duct tape either....it looks innocently like the disposable camera you bought at Shoemakers for $8.00.
Not for taking pictures
While your camera is charging its flash lamp, its actually collecting about 300 volts via a small capacitor so that when you push the button, it forces all that energy into the lamp causing it to become very bright, if only for a second. Open up the camera, attach a few small wires to the ends of the capacitor, then close the camera back up, and instead of the lamp getting all that attention, a charged up flash actually gets fed to whatever lucky creature comes in contact with those wires.
Kinda like this.
I can't obviously explain the specifics of tampering with Walgreen's property here, but I can show you this completely unrelated Youtube video about protecting the environment. Enjoy!
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