TAZER

The credit for this goes to a mate of mine who showed us the wonder of capacitors.
thanks to mcgarr
it may not look like it but you normal everyday desposable camera with a flash has the
power to deliver a shock equivalant to a low current electric fence. with a little
know-how you can make a profesional looking one to. 


Because i dont have the materials here with me while i write this i cant take step by
step photos so i am 
describing it in detail. photos will follow at a later date.


Materials:
Necessary
- Camera
- Wires
- Pliers/wire cutters


Optional (buts makes it exponentially better)
- Soldering Iron
- Solder
- Rubber gloves, saftey reasons 


the first thing you need to do is obtain one or more disposable cameras, you can get them
from any store that processes photos. i am just out of school so i said that it was for a
school project but you can use what ever suits your situation.


NOTE: to make a tazer out of one camera is basic, two or more gets trickier so dont over
extend yourself on your first time.


After you have your camera you need to open it care fully so that you can close it again after
you are finished. once you have it open you need to remove the baterry (if it has one sometimes
the stores remove them) else it may charge up and zap you (if you are not wearing gloves), the
zap though mild still has a kick to it. now that you have it open you need to pull the circuit
board out. be care full but at the same time force full. above all you must not break the curcuit
board. even breaking the corner off can break the connection. dont worry about any springs
attached to the circuit board they are used for taking a photo but after you are done with this 
camera there is no hope of it ever taking a photo again so any little loose bits you can find, 
just fuck them off.


now that you have the circuit board seperated from the frame you need to find a large cylinder
often it is green or black but either way it is unmistakable because it is the biggest component
on the board. this is called a "Capacitor", what a capacitor does is store charge from a battery
and when crossed discharges all the storded charge it contains but the but the beauty of the
capacitor is that it can store up more charge than a battery like storing up static electricity.
what you do when you make a tazer is essentially that releasing the stored up charge into someone
or something.


this is where the tutorial diverges. if you are only using one camera then keep reading otherwise
skip this part.


see the two wires sticking out of the bottom of the Cap (what i will call a capacitor from now on)
one of those is positive and the other negative for a basic one Cap tazer that doesnt really
matter. to make a working tazer all you need to do is wind a wire about each terminal of the cap
run it out of the camera and charge it up. it is crucial that if you are using non insulated wire
(wire that doesnt have that rubber coating on it) that you dont have the wire touching any other
points or exposed wires on the circuit board espescially dont connect the two wires you hooked up.
if you are using insulated wire then you have nothing to worry about.
 
be warned though when the CAP discharges because of the lose terminals at both ends the discharge
will gradually wear away at the CAP terminals eventually rendering it unuseable. the solution
to this problem is quite simple. SOLDER it. it is simple. now for the probes