I became very interested in the function of a speaker, specially because it sounds so simple. In this exercise I tried to experiment as much as possible with materials for the membrane and shapes for the copper spiral. My intention was to find a shape for the spiral that was different from the 2D design […]
Tilt Switch actually just work as a simple switch to make open and closed circuit. Open a tilt switch, we can see there are to conductive balls inside a copper tube. There are two pins with this switch, one connected to the outer copper tube, and another one go into the tube and which would […]
The original idea is to build a motor with soft linear material at sides which could be held and turning in hand . To build a motor you need to roll the surface-isolated wire into spiral, and its important to make sure that you make the spiral as a continual circle which means you […]
Since I took apart a potentiometer yesterday, I thought it would be fun to experiment with different conductive surfaces, like the two pathways that run along the base of the potentiometer. I worked with wood as a starting material and used a number of different materials to experiment with conductivity. I started by digging ‘canals’ in […]
This week at the Kit of No parts Workshop I opened up first of all a Sliding switch. It is a very simple mechanism, but still includes many details to think about. It is a three leg pieces that consists of a sliding conductive bridge that always makes contact with Ground (center leg), but depends […]
For my project last week I intended to play with sensors and textiles. I created a little system where you blew into a ventilator that produced a certain amount of voltage. This voltage was read by Arduino and gave a series of values depending on the intensity of the wind. When the value went between […]
The device I took apart is a Potentiometer Knob.. So let’s see how it works! It is made of a base with three legs, a slider, a screw and a top cover. Legs 1 & 3 are connected through a high resistance pathway on top of the base. Leg 2 is connected to a very […]
Pressure sensor is made like a bend sensor with a conductive thread, velostat, conductive fabric and non-conductive material. Structure of pressure sensor (click for bigger picture) Parts of the sensor: – Conductive thread : to connect threads in the circuit – Non-conductive material (neoprene) : to give the sensor structure – Velostat : […]
My idea was simply to create a sheet of paper, that when folded tri-dimentionally, the folds would function as contact points (switches) to close three different circuits. Depending on how you folded the figure a different color LED would turn on. Also the idea was to use your hands, so one hand is holding the […]
LIGHT ME UP! t h e i d e a was to make a module with one LED light that would light up only when put next to another module. There were two modules made which can be put directly next to each other and could be swapped. v i d e o t h […]