scary movie 4: the flasher
Subtitle - Blessed are the Geek - part 2
And then comes a time when evolution takes a giant leap forward - from the circuit tester to the Flasher.
From the menacing to the magnanimous, the kitchen table has always been the seminal workspace for the hatching of schemes. Again today our faithful blue table cloth saw a new creation come to light from the pages of Fun Way into Electronics.
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Interestingly it’s the right LED that flashes first everytime, so even tho’ the distribution of the various electrical properties of the components is effectively random, its deterministic and the same sequence repeats every time. I guess if you carefully measured every component you could predetermine it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator