Unconventional Switch - Team 22

 

    It can be a pesky thing when you're out of gum, specifically the first and rightmost one, or if anyone were to steal that specific piece of gum. For our Unconventional Switch, we utilised gum wrappers to maintain and break the circuit that turns on our light. We had played with many different materials we had on hand, but we kept coming back to the gum wrapper. It conducted electricity very well and was quite fun to mess around with. We also saw that when several pieces of gun were placed next to each other, they could carry the current through them. After playing around for a bit, we longer we placed one end of the alligator clip on the farthest back piece of gum and the other on the piece we wished to take out. Though our implementation is highly simplistic, it is fun and expresses a wider concept that could truly be interesting. Utilising a light-based indicator to let you know if your gum container needs to be refilled. Though limited by our goal of only using what we had on hand, which meant we could explore more technical or complex versions of this project. It forced us to get creative and find an option that could be greatly expanded on and a lot of fun to mess around with.