LWHS Tech Arts

Here's a small selection of the 32 amplifier projects built by the Fall '17 Lick-Wilmerding Analog and Digital circuits classes. I've been facilitating this project each fall for a few years now and students continue to amaze me with innovative applications of design, material use, and tool application. All of the amplifiers have a class-D amplifier IC circuit at the heart, to which many students added extra features like analog potentiometers, bluetooth connectivity, and audio responsive lights.

Analog and Digital Today

Congratulations to Eugene Han for his DuPont Challenge entry. Hi essay on reducing carbon edged out over 9000 other entries to receive an honorable mention.

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In Device Invention class today: Jen testing her muscle controlled bike turn signal.

Leo and Sydney are almost done with their api mirror. It gives you the time,weather,bus times and top 3 NYT articles while you brush your teeth and fix your hair.

Pauline, Kelby and Nichole used sensors to count the number of people walking through the front doors of the school over the day and created an interactive visualization that looks like this.

watching Sarah’s table coming into the world while also reading back and forth from Bohm to Deleuze/Guattari and back to Bohm. Contemplating their ideas that the ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. I’m looking at the utter power and beauty of the object and realizing that it quickly becomes the calcification that surrounds you, denying future growth and exploration.  A rhizome needs to continually move out horizontally making contact with the void leaving its past in tact , but always letting go of knowledge gained 

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Students collecting and analyzing environmental data in the Device Invention class.

Kinetics class hosts Hamlin girls