For this week’s assignment, we had to create a switch that didn’t use our hands. I started messing around with different objects, trying to figure out what could act as a switch without actually being one. While thinking, I was absentmindedly playing with my keychain, and that’s when I realized all its connecting parts are metal and I decided to seperate it into two to act as the break in my circuit.
From there, I needed a way to complete the circuit without using my hands, so I came up with a foot pedal-style switch. I wrapped the sole of my slippers in foil to make them conductive, then taped the two separate pieces of my keychain onto a sheet of paper to keep them stable. When I step down on the connection point, my foil-covered foot acts as the bridge, completing the circuit and lighting up the bulb.
Link to video : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10NqetPFYwhogeYTs0krIon77jGHFkyMm?usp=sharing
It was a really enjoyable assignment, and I had fun playing around with the circuit, switching the bulb on and off and even syncing it to the beats of songs by tapping my foot.