Students/RyanGlasgow

Ryan Glasgow My interests in art generally involve around design, specifically interface design, such as websites. I'm currently the Creative Director at Extrabux.com and designed the current website, as well as wrote the HTML/CSS. Other websites I've designed can be seen at RyanGlasgow.net/work. The reason I switched my major from Economics, to Media: Computing Emphasis is because I began to become more and more interested in design, and decided to pursue a career as a designer/entrepreneur.

Midterm Project

My original idea was for a pendulum apparatus that represents a coin that is often flipped to make decisions. The result of a coin flip can be rigged by the human if he or she is skilled, which is the artistic statement of my work. For the coin to be flipped, I needed a single switch relay to memorize the state as the pendulum swung each time, but was only able to figure out the double switch relay as diagrammed in our lab.

Since I wasn't able to use the relay, I switched my idea to a "Life is Good" meter. This was still a pendulum apparatus, but every time the pendulum swung all the way down, it metal foil would connect the contacts and a 5v light bulb would light up at the top. It would illuminate a hand painted sign that said "Life is Good".

Project Details: I built a 2ft tall wooden pendulum using 2 2"x5" pieces of wood. I used the 12v wall plug to power the device, and connected it to the breadboard. On the breadboard, the 12v's was converted to 5v's using the 7805 transistor, and a lengthy wire (about 1.5 feet), ran up and then down the arm of the pendulum. The wire was taped to the aluminum foil contacts on both the pendulum base, and pendulum arm. Between the aluminum foil contacts, I soldered a 5v lightbulb and placed it inside a white sign that was mounted at the top of the pendulum that said "Life is Good".