Here are some of the electronic projects I have finished or am currently working on.

My senior project involved designing and building a touchscreen device to mount to the surface of an existing 5" LCD screen. Computer software was then written to interpret the data from the screen corresponding to the positon being touched on the screen. This project involved analog and digital circuit design, printed circuit board design, micro-controller programming,PC interfacing via the serial port,and PC programming.

This is the "finished prototype". For demonstration purposes I wrote a logic game using DirectX. The game consists of nine tiles,red on one side blue on the other. When touched that tile along with others coresponding to it will flip over. The goal is to get all the tiles to have red facing up.

There were two boards made. One was connected to the screenand detected the touch position. The other board controlled and gathered data fron the screen mounted one.

Close-up of screen mounted board.

Contruction process.

20,000 Volt Power Supply - Made out of a flyback transformer and voltage multiplier this is the basis for many of my high voltage experements.

Electrokenetic device - In the early 1900's Thomas Townsend Brown discovered a method of creating a thrust using electric fields. This thrust is capable of levetating objects and moving them at high speeds.I have attempted to recreate his and others experements with some success.

Traveling plasma is essensially the same as neon but it is activated in such a way that it starts at one end of the tube and extends to the other. When powered off the same thing happens in reverse. The time of this extension and retraction is adjustable electronically.

"Knight Rider" Lights- I built this for a project in highschool. It uses a digital circuit to "bounce" the active LED back and forth between 16 LEDs.

Guitar Effects - I learned to play guitar on an electric but have since been exclusivly an accoustic guitar player. Durring that time I experemented with building different effect pedals including distortion, wah, fuzz, and phase. Verry few of these exist today in their entirety however because they have since been scrapped for parts.

"Trance Out" Goggles - My room mate a few years back wanted me to build these for him. They consisted of a pair of lab goggles painted black with an LED in front of each eye. The LEDs pulsed to initiate a trance like state(or so the theory went) I think he wore them once now I've got them stored in a box somewhere.