Unconventional Switch: Hook Detection

 

Electronics Team 21: Ethan Ryno and Jeremy Myers

    
    One way we wanted to bridge the gap for our unconventional switch was to uses wall hooks with metal tips and we wanted to see if we could hang something like a hat or metal kitchen utensil and if it would complete our current and turn on the LED. Detecting when something is on a hook can have a lot of uses whether making a game of landing something on it, see if a hooks in use so you don't put to much stuff on it, or do the reverse and tell when someone takes something off a hook turning or a light or make a alarm go off. The switch has two hooks each having clips attached to them, with one hook attached to the wall and the second placed on top of it with a piece of foam under it lifting it the hook up a bit. When something like a hat is placed on the top hook it weighs it down compressing the foam and touching the bottom hook completing the circuit and turning on the LED, lifting the hat up would then decompress the foam turning off the LED.