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- Sc00t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37The Boston Museum of Science had something like this for a long time. The setup was behind glass and you could adjust the strobe.. Even make it look like it's going in reverse. It was near their wave machine. I haven't been there in years so I have no idea if it's still there.
- f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Indeed. The sad thing is if I make one I'd just mess with it all day and get nothing done. This needs to be a gadget to buy on thinkgeek.
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26"OMG a strobe light. Wow. High tech."
A UV Strobe light that syncs up with when the water drops fall... It's not about the pieces that make it up, but the actual idea, and the result. Most things are comprised of simple parts. I think someone's just jealous... - Tabclear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I seen this in several science museums around the world. There has been one in you can touch and play woth in WonderWorks, International Drive, Orlando for years. Reverse it, stop it etc....
- robertgilbert86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Another machine he's made:
http://cre.ations.net/creation/31
Not as revolutionary, but still cool, nice vid too - trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I would buy it.
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I'm surprised they dont have a few of these behind glass in nightclubs...people smoking pot or doing ecstasy would be mind-blown by it and the amount of people showing up to see the 'trippy displays' would probably pay for it's installation after only a few weekends.
- LucasVB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Saw this on MAKE today, ingenious and a great effect.
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The right shampoo can fix that..
- f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Bwahaha! why is that funny to me? I think I was taking it too seriously considering the first video.
- f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I think I will have to make "T-Rex'd" part of my informal vocabulary.
- disillusioned, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I was just telling Nate he could market this and sell a larger scale one to a science center, or a smaller scale one to ThinkGeek.
Good times... - skifreak107, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Indeed it is still there, and its still awesome.
- whisk3rs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Nice vid, but the circuit diagram is a bit hard to see
"Some other components (resistors, capacitors)" - heh, not very specific. If anyone wants to build one, http://www.epanorama.net/schematic.php?file=schematicsforfree/Lights/Strobe%20Lights.pdf for a pdf of handwritten strobe schematics. - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Incredible... my mind says WTF, but my eyes say awesome!
- walterd93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8wait until "5 minutes ago happens again"!? WTF
- candiru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9it does?
- tastewar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Heh. I just created my account to say the same thing. Not to detract from the nifty implementation here, the one at MIT has been there for decades
http://web.mit.edu/Edgerton/www/WaterPiddler.html - ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Why dig Tabclear down? I've seen several as well where you can adjust the strobe and everything.
That doesn't make this any less neat, by any means... it just makes it not-so-groundbreaking. He did an amazing job with this one. - retsel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7if that was on thinkgeek i would buy it asap
- ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'll take two.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6didn't you hear, Jeff got T-rex'd the other day, it was crazy !
- mandolinsrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can also do it with a ceiling fan in a dark room with a normal strobe. Reverse, stop, everything.
- TheEyebright, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10What? No one on digg has ever peed to a strobe light?
High School pastimes, ladies and gentlemen. - Eaglefire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sorry about the dugging guys. I put up a low-bandwidth gateway page with just the Youtube vid to stem the tide of the unwashed. You can still click through and see it in full glory, since not everyone will click through.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6f3l1x speaks the truth!
- sleazy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He went out of his way to purchase special dye for this. In college, we used to take common highlighters and break them open and use the dye from them. We'd fill up bottles with the stuff and they'd glow under a blacklight.
- dralezero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@f3l1x
yea i think its silly too. lol look at this greatmachine i built. BEEP! crash! BEEP! - bass0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5B-E-A-utiful!
can it be used to research hydrodynamics? actually, i wonder what would happen if you illuminated a more complex water flux with this, like a (miniature) waterfall. could be useful in amusement parks. - ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Sorry for the meaningless comment... but this is FREAKEN AWESOME.
- dmitry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but this isn't something he invented or developed; the inventor of strobe lights first did this experiment himself. This cool illusion has been around for at least fifty years.
This is still some cool *****. - tgelston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I read the comments before watching and thought - I have def. seen this in a science museum or two. . then I watched the video and when he is playing with the drops - that is slick as anything!!
- ReaperUnreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, well I know what I'm doing tonight! That's an incredible effect.
- corbanbrook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I want a sink like this!
- pred8tr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is awesome! This kinda of Geek-genuity is always worth taking a minute to look at. This dudes site is definately worth a look! He has some other awesome projects there as well.
- reversial, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There's one of these at the end of MIT's "strobe alley". Good times.
- adamkmccarthy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4quite a bit of head scratching and time spent putting it all together. very impressive.
- TechnoGuyRob, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Now I can make more careful and fancy artwork in the snow!
- Eaglefire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5And conditioner.
Never forget the conditioner. - Eaglefire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheherazade and Capriccio espa, Movement 2, The Kalendar Prince.
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You're right. I still would want one of my own, though.
- ronin2040, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dugg for not using the word "amazing", although that would be accurate :)
- porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While you may be correct, I had never seen this before, and am glad someone posted the link. It's not like the poster put up a link to the goatse guy or the hamsterdance.
WRCKA
-he who stacks pork - chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
Great Digg - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What's really going to screw with your head is that the theory of relativity states that in two different frames of reference (i.e. "points of view") that are moving uniformly relative to each other, it's possible that two separate events can be observed occurring in different orders.
Since relativity states that there is no single "correct" fixed viewpoint, either order is "correct" when viewed from the appropriate frame of reference.
The only reason this doesn't mess up cause and effect is that this can only happen when there is *no possibility of one event having caused the other*; that is, such that the time/distance between them is too far for light (and hence anything slower) to have travelled quickly enough to "cause" the second event.
Umm... I think I need someone who know physics better than me to confirm that I expressed that correctly. :) - brickballs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the crowd's moved on, my mirror is gone..
- theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i would pay $40 for somthing a little bigger than that
- noneloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah. At least to me it does. It shows that when events repeat in time, the fame of refrence in which time follows speeds up. I know it was just an illusion, but I think it's a good example how we may think we're moving forward, but we're really just standing still in every frame of our life.
Thanks for burying me though? - f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@krutch. true.. but maybe its the UV persistence or the fact that the video exaggerated persistence.. this looks less "strobey" than what I am used to.
- trebe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We've had this exact thing at the science museum in my town for over a decade.
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