I am working with Sean for the final project. We are making a functional record player using, copper vinyl, simple circuits with LED lights and motors, and sound module musical boxes. Sean came up with the concept and had asked me questions about the music box I used in one of my previous projects. Since I was considering working with a music box again we joined forces to do it together. Based on what we have prototyped so far, I think this will be a fairly ambitious project. We are aiming to create our record out of copper, which will spin with a motor, and will conduct to start the sound. This record will also have a funky Side A and Side B, triggering two different original songs, by the hit new group “Viking Funeral”. I am really excited for this project because I think Sean and I both have different strengths that will work well for this project: his developed knowledge of circuits, and of course humor, and my background in music, recording and understanding of the sound boxes.

This project builds on pervious knowledge of things focused on in an academic year. Our project is designed for a final project for students, where they would be challenged to develop an idea using multiple things we learned from different projects. I think it would be worthwhile because it is student led, allowing them to explore alternate project uses for what they learned, as well as explore ways these materials/ projects could be tied together.

As of right now for our project we have been looking at different types of sound boxes and our current idea involves one from the same company that I used, but rather than using the pull tab one we are using one that is activated by light. We did some experimentation in class to see if LED lights could activate it. We are also really excited to write some music together. I think it will be really fun to collaborate on that. Since there are other options students can pick from, I may need to have a deeper background in some of the materials they can pick from in order to be a better resource.