A funky switch

If a switch is nothing more then a mechanism that brings pieces of conductive material together (and possibly separate them) then almost any common activity might become a switch! Here I have turned a chair up/down mechanism into a switch. I have added a LED to give a feedback that the switch is tuned ON. In this Lab I did no use a Microcontroler as the Arduino nor a breadboard. Pieces were soldered together to ensure connectivity and keep a clean organized circuit. During soldering I discovered that some metals do to their size a properties could not be soldered. i used glue gun and Alligators connectors.

Process

In use:

  • 9v battery
  • Battery pack
  • Red LED
  • 2 pieces of metal (1/2”)
  • Blue foam
  • Wires
  • Fabric Tape

On_Off

Funky switch from Oryan Inbar on Vimeo.

A more sophisticated mechanism could be turning this system to a scaled potentiometer using the metal tube in the chair up/down slide mechanism, and use that to increase and decrease our dial from the end of the circuit.

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  1. This is probably the biggest switch that came out of the labs. It would be entertaining to make a project of huge switch mechanisms. Another good expansion of the labs, well done.

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