{"id":1937,"date":"2009-03-27T04:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T09:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2009-03-27T04:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T09:01:25","slug":"simple-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1937","title":{"rendered":"Simple Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another cheap little toy I recently acquired is a keychain containing a multicolor LED that rapidly flashes between red, blue and green.  It looks white (almost) to the naked eye when it&#8217;s stationary, but when it&#8217;s moving quickly enough, persistence of vision allows you to see the different colors.  My webcam frame rate is timed such that it picks this up as well.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P0WeH-hgTkQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P0WeH-hgTkQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a reasonable distraction for when I&#8217;m put on hold by tech support or customer &#8220;service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another cheap little toy I recently acquired is a keychain containing a multicolor LED that rapidly flashes between red, blue and green. It looks white (almost) to the naked eye when it&#8217;s stationary, but when it&#8217;s moving quickly enough, persistence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1937\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}