Is it possible to build a mini strobe light w/ flash speed/rate dial, if so, how?

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KWmontoya

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Hello, I need some help (obviously).
Like the title suggests, I need to know how to construct a mini strobe light, in which I can control the speed/rate of the flash. If it's possible, that is.
Basically, the way most strobe lights work, only much smaller.

I’ve found a few sites that tell me how to make a small strobe light, but I can’t find anything that tells how to make a speed dial, or even if it’s possible.

I’m hoping that someone out there has some knowledge on this subject.
The help is much appreciated… Even if it’s to tell me that it’s NOT possible.
 
The part you want is available in both electronic supply stores and in industrial part supply respectively. They MIGHT be called a potentiometer, a speed pot, or a number of other things due to the application intended by the maker. Although I am electronically dumb, this is what it does: on a 1 to 10 scale it raises voltage at a desired level, that I am guessing increases the flow of electrons in to a dischargable capacitor, that will send the voltage to bulb when It becomes full. The potentiometer just either speeds or slows down the flow. Theres more than one way to do it but it is somewhat difficult to explain with out a diagram.

envision that the voltage coming into your strobe light is 115v. envision that your potentiometer under the knob and inside, is shaped like a metal beads in a circle, all of them conducive but not connected and is on a 1 to ten scale. you split the incoming voltage 10 ways, and put a resistor, so that they have progressively different voltage outputs connecting the lowest to 1, the next higher to 2 and so on. so when you turn the knob from one to two, the output of electrons are higher, and the bulb flashes faster. Simple right?
I would be somewhat more efficient if you were to build a small logic circuit that could run an algorithm, you could raise and lower by buttons.
 
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