"The Klapper" (As Seen on TV (sorta))

You will build a circuit that functions every bit as well as the commercial version of "The Clapper". Turn any appliance on or off with two successive claps. This kit oriented workshop will cover a variety of topics: Analog circuits - microphones and Op amps. Analog to Digital - Comparators. Digital circuits - Logic, Timers, Flip-Flops. Electromechanical - Relays. Power - Transformers, AC to DC, voltage regulators. High Voltage Safety.

The materials will include a custom printed circuit board, housing, and electronics. On day one we'll cover the basics of electronics theory and kit assembly while populating the circuit board with components. On day two we'll discuss the theory behind the operation of the circuit and complete the project by wiring it into the housing.

Instructor
Phillip Stearns (AKA Pixel Form) is a practitioner of sonic and visual arts; music composer and performer; electronics sculptor and installation artist. He views technology as a site for exploring the global society-environment system and how changes in the relationship between society and environment manifest in our technology---particularly as solutions to a cascading set of problems created by contemporary culture. Through the medium of networked systems, his work explores the horizons of information, politics, noise, control, proximity, subversion, corruption, interconnectedness and interrelatedness. Central to his practice as a visual artist and a performer are the use of custom electronics, hand-craft, hardware hacking, media technologies, and iterative processes marked by a judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness. He has presented, performed, lectured, exhibited, led workshops, and screened works at various festivals, conferences, residencies, museums and institutions around the US, Latin America and Northern Europe.

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