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adapter for my laptop as well. I have put together several desktop systems, including my most current one which has an Intel i7 920 processor running at 3.7 Ghz with a gigantic air cooler, 6 Gigabytes of ddr3 ram running at 1600 Mhz, an ATI Radeon 5770 graphics card running crossfire x, 2 terabytes of hard disk space running in a RAID configuration, and a 750 watt power supply with a really nice case. I do not know all the ins and outs of all electronics, but I have a decent basic understanding and some limited experience to bring to the classroom with me. I am also interested in cutting edge electronics in general and feel this class would be fun for me along with giving me the most skills out of the A/B class sequences for the ICAM major in addition to providing me with some of the skills necessary to complete the ICAM senior project.
== '''Midterm Project Proposal''' ==
Materials: 4 mercury tilt switches, 1. A tilt sensor on/off toggle switch that turns , one toilet float ball, sound chip from a light on or offbirthday card, wire, solder, hot glue gun, along with some other eventparticle board. <br>2[[Image:float_ball. The simple psycho-galvanometerjpg]][[Image:toggle_switch. (checks for the change in resistance in the human skin depending on body chemistry altered by a number of different things such asjpg]][[Image: emotion, attention, and stressmercury_tilt_switch.jpg]][[Image:card_sound_chip.png]]<br>1I cut the top off the float ball and removed the stem as well. The tilt sensor device would have 4 tilt sensor switches in 4 corners I cut out a round piece of particle board and drilled a square object that one is hole in the middle to holdfit inside. If the individual tilts any of I then glued the 4 corners past approximately 2 degrees, mercury switches down on the current will flow and light up a light bulbparticle board. The current will also possibly trigger an obnoxious sound through I then wired all 4 of them along with the small speaker we were given toggle switch in our electronics kitsseries, which I connected to the sound chip. 2. The galvanometer sound will be hooked up to a participant via a static wrist strap or maybe even wires soldered to 2 pennies only play if the toggle switch is on, and taped on perhapsthe device is held level. The participant will then light up All 4 mercury switches must have the bulb involuntarily through various emotional responses or some trigger event perhaps :) Either ball of these projects are contingent liquid mercury touching the two leads on the availability of the components. So far I have found tilt sensors, but have yet to even look inside for the rest. I will decide which project I want sound to build after lecture on Thursday and also by component availability as wellplay. Once I decide which project to build, I A tilt of only a couple degrees will draw a simple schematic and write more on how it worksbreak the circuit.
