How to Brick Your Digital Camera

or, the coolest instructable ever, gone wrong. More a cautionary tale than an instructable.

The instructable I came up with was a novel (in that I found nothing quite like it) implementation of a sound activated flash. I was inspired be phinch's https://www.instructables.com/id/EE37CNT2V3EP286A6C/.

The assembly went quite smoothly and all along I documented the steps with my beloved fuji camera, reaching the testing phase I found everything worked quite well. and then.....

Satisfied with the results I unslung the camera from around my neck and set it down right next to the disposable camera i was using as a flash, the noise triggered the flash unit..

I guess the EMP was pretty powerful.

Now I get nice pictures of blackness.

And my wifes mad.

oops.

It was a really cool project, when i have time I'll redoc it with my POS 1.3mpixel. but remember EMP KILLS.