Students/Priscilla Wan
About Me
My name is Priscilla Wan and I am a third year Marshall student. I am a visual arts major with an emphasis in computers which is funny because I don't really get computers in general. Also I am a communications minor which is basically a lot of papers about how the world communicates...better a paper than a one hundred multiple choice exam. I'm from the Bay Area and I rep the bay proudly! I came to UCSD because I wanted to try something new and I like the nice weather. I think I've almost fully assimilated into the "socal" world by swapping my kswiss kicks for rainbows.
Anyways, I'm in this class because it's a requirement to fulfill the vis arts major. I think it's interesting that the requirements for art are so random, but does make all artists experience different sides of art. I'm slightly worried for this class because I'm horrible with electronics on a regular basis, but here's to hoping!
Images
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Gps.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Heater.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Light_noflash.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Passport.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Waterheater.jpg
Midterm Proposal
I’m going to build a lunch box alarm. I know the assignment says to think creatively about the idea of a switch so I kept thinking about switches that just flipped on and off. I kept thinking about buttons that when pushed would again turn something on or off, but it wasn’t till I started thinking about circuits and wiring that I decided to go back to the old-school concept of a simple alarm. I also did not want to just use a regular push button switch, but instead wanted to just have a mechanism be the switch itself. I’m going to use wiring as the switch that either interrupts of creates the energy flow.
Here are some examples of what things I need and what I hope to make:
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Battery_9V.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Station_Wire_Group_400px_wide2.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Lunchbox.jpg
and here's a diagram I found online of how I would connect the circuits.
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Diag5.gif
This is how it turned out and looked:
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Lunchboxfinal.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Inside_lunchbox.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Special:Upload
Final Proposal
I'm going to try and build a mood sensor of the type that would use the color mixer from Arduino/Processing and people switching the knobs depending on their mood. I'm not exactly sure how I will go about getting the people to move the knobs, but I'm thinking of having various questions and the answers will be resulted in the knob they choose to turn. Their mood will be calculated by the color they end up with at the end of all the questions.
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Arduino-noise-box-synth.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Mood-ring-color-chart.jpg
http://wiki.roberttwomey.com/Image:Moodring.jpg
