Students/Joeny Thipsidakhom

Hello,

My name is Joeny Thipsidakhom. I'm a fourth year Visual Arts major with an emphasis on computing. I'm taking this class not only for a major requirement but also because I'm interested technology and the whole idea of interactivity between the user and whatever electronic item/interface is used. I've been interested in newly developed technology and where its going since I got my first computer, however my interest in electronics came about during my high school years. I have some previous experience with electronics. During my high school freshman year I joined my school's robotics team and was apart of the electronics section/team. We were in charge of wiring the electronics components together for the robot. I was apart of this club/team throughout high school and proceeded to help the local high school's robotics team during my freshman year of college. Sounds fancy (maybe?) but I just followed the electronics schematic that the organization, FIRST Robotics, provided the teams and adjusted it to whatever the mechanical team wanted in terms of number and type of motors.

Midterm Proposal

For the Midterm switch project I want to create a more complicated form of light switch maybe using motors, some type of pulley system, and variable control over speed of the motors. One motor would close the switch allowing the light to turn on, while the other motor would open the switch pulling on it breaking the circuit and in turn turning the light off. The motors and switch would be separated by a simple pulley system allowing the motors to pull on strings opening and closing the switch and completing the circuit.