Electronics Team 22 Unconventional Switch - Magnets

 

For our original switch concept we wanted to start with trying to decide on a material that was first and foremost conductive and could easily be separated and connected again so we decided on the idea of using two circular magnets. From there we tried to see if there was a higher abstract representation that we could build out of the idea of two circular magnets coming together. We worked through a few different explorations about things coming together and landed on the idea of eyes being over the magnets that come together when the magnets are connected. This idea allows us to make use of the circular shape of the magnets to help sell the imagery of eyes with the physical magnets acting as a sort of frame for eyes to peek through. When the eyes are together they form a connected vision with the magnets completing the circuit. Once this circuit/connected vision is active and “seeing” the LED lights up to reflect that idea.