Eric Sorensen

My two primary interests are photography and electronics. This project allowed me to combine two of my loves and capture some stellar images. I used a PIC microcontroller to sync my shutter and some off-camera strobes with the collision of a water/milk droplet and a bowl of liquid. This technique captures durations in the order of microseconds.

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Now that finals are over, I finally have some time to work on the projects I’ve been putting aside over the last few months. The first thing I checked off my list is something I’ve been promising my mother for a couple of weeks.

We decided to put our Christmas tree outside on the front porch this year. My mom had the idea of setting up the train under the tree and having it automatically move around the track whenever someone came up to the front door. She setup the tree and the train, my task was to make it move.

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