Saturday 30 April in went to the soundcamp event.
I signed up for the pinhole photography building thing.
I didn’t really know what to expect
I enjoyed a lot the pinhole photography It was so interesting to understand better how photos work. It’s really different hearing about how it works, then being the one doing it.
My first attempt failed, because the pinhole didn’t let enough light in, so on the second try I left the shutter open for about 20 seconds and I got a really interesting result from it. On the 3rd try I left it even for longer, and I got a photo that you could start to decipher what it is. It was a great experiment I a am interested in doing lots more of these in the future. Its the most analog you can get, since you are working directly with the medium, with light. No mechanics or anything.
After this we did a foxhole radio.
These were used during second world war by the soldiers, it is a really easy way to listen to radio frequencies. It was interesting since I learned some stuff about how radios work and about the ionosphere.
I couldn’t get any sound out of my radio, because we had some issues with the speakers, but I managed to listen to other people radio, and it was great. We did it at sunset, then when the ionosphere is the strongest, when it gets the most amount of energy from the sun.
It was a fun expense and I want to explore more building radios.