Strobe effects

Learning objectives:

• Understand how a strobe light works and how it can be used
• Understand why a strobe light makes it look like motion stops
• Use an oscilloscope to visualize a changing current
• Understand how the timer circuit we made previously can be used to detect lighting conditions
• Understand how the timer circuit can be used to send a signal

Stroboscopic effect

This is a video of a bird flying with a stroboscopic effect:

• This Bird’s Wing Flapping Is Synced With A Camera’s Frame Rate

These are videos of falling water drops:

• Levitating Water Droplets
• Oscillating water flows observed by LED-strobe system
• Amazing Water & Sound Experiment #2
• Water Droplets Create Amazing Human-Like Animations In This Gatorade​ Ad

These are videos of a spinning wheel:

• Strobe Effect
• Strobe Effect Tire
• Wagon-wheel effect optic illusion