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 Proposal

My Midterm proposal is a pendulum switch. The switch is a wooden frame, with a wire hanging down the middle that swings a metal soda can. The soda can is manually swung, and if it reaches a certain height in either direction it touches the aluminum foil contact pads. If the circuit is completed on the left side, a lightbulb will illuminate a YES sign. If the circuit is completed on the right side, a NO sign will illuminate.

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".

Electrical Details: 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),