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Hello

My name is Mike Teall, I am a Junior Year ICAM major through the Visual Arts department. I wanted to be an ICAM major because for whatever silly reason, I thought I would learn about Graphic Design and Programming. I have since found out that the ICAM major does not focus Graphic Arts at all and the programming is very limited. I have decided to stick it out anyways and learn that other stuff on my own and hopefully having an ICAM degree will help me as well. I am taking this class as my two quarter A/B requirement for my major. I have between a novice level and mild enthusiast level interest in electronics. I have done some soldering, wire stripping, etc. I replaced the power jack on my girlfriend's laptop, I put a new barrel connector on my power 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

"Mercury Tilt Switch"

Materials: 4 mercury tilt switches, 1 on/off toggle switch, one toilet float ball, sound chip from a birthday card, wire, solder, hot glue gun, particle board.

I cut the top off the float ball and removed the stem as well. I cut out a round piece of particle board and drilled a hole in the middle to fit inside. I then glued the 4 mercury switches down on the particle board. I then wired all 4 of them along with the toggle switch in series, which I connected to the sound chip. The sound will only play if the toggle switch is on, and the device is held level. All 4 mercury switches must have the ball of liquid mercury touching the two leads on the inside for the sound to play. A tilt of only a couple degrees will break the circuit.

Final Project

I am still unsure at this time what my final project will be just yet. I received my freeduino from NKC electronics earlier this week, but unfortunately the 16 mhz crystal that was in the kit was broken and I am waiting on a replacement.

Field Research Listed Below:

If I could link together several devices all utilizing Cell Processors in a home network as they were intended and designed for, I would have tremendous computing power. Instead I only have one, in my Sony Playstation 3....

If I had the knowledge and the opportunity to operate and manipulate the HAARP antennas, I would carry out epic weather experiments.

Oh the fun I would have with Hubble.... I think some of the best artwork in history has come from pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope. Given the opportunity to control Hubble, I would probably do long exposures on dark areas with no stars.

Playing with the Large Hadron Collider must be a blast.... Literally

If I had control over all of the ATM machines and their networks, this girl wouldn't be the only one to pee herself...