HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite--Part 2, the kite and the pictures

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Richard Neill @ Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM

I saw this on slashdot - great idea. But I can't figure out why you've wired up the 555 in such a truly odd way.

Normally, you'd use pin 1 and pin 8 for 0V and +6V respectively. Pin 3 is an output pin, and pin 4 is the reset. Have you done this rather unorthodox thing (powering the chip from an output and a reset line!) by accident, or is it a very clever hack?

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