Students/MikeTeall
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 Proposal
So I have two different ideas that I could possibly do for the midterm project:
1. A tilt sensor switch that turns a light on or off, along with some other event.
2. The simple psycho-galvanometer. (checks for the change in resistance in the human skin depending on body chemistry altered by a number of different things such as: emotion, attention, and stress.
1. The tilt sensor device would have 4 tilt sensor switches in 4 corners of a square object that one is to hold. If the individual tilts any of the 4 corners past approximately 2 degrees, the current will flow and light up a light bulb. The current will also possibly trigger an obnoxious sound through the small speaker we were given in our electronics kits.
2. The galvanometer will be hooked up to a participant via a static wrist strap or maybe even wires soldered to 2 pennies and taped on perhaps. The participant will then light up the bulb involuntarily through various emotional responses or some trigger event perhaps :)
Either of these projects are contingent on the availability of the components. So far I have found tilt sensors, but have yet to even look for the rest. I will decide which project I want to build after lecture on Thursday and also by component availability as well. Once I decide which project to build, I will draw a simple schematic and write more on how it works.
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...
