Last week I made a mechanical switch in technology, and I will be writing about the process behind the project. After I finished the project on Thursday of last week, I immediately knew it would be a great blog post to write about.

The process included three steps. First, you had to gather all the pieces you need based on the switch you making. Second, you had to wax the teeth of the pieces, and assemble all the pieces together to make a functional mechanical switch. And lastly, you could attach the final product to your light switch, and then submit a video of it working. Or you could decide to just submit a video of it working without it being on the light switch.

The first pieces I assembled (by gluing) after waxing were the pin and the 2 driver gears. Right after that I put the bar onto the other side of the driver gears. Next, I attached another pin to 2 pinion gears. Then I put the dimmer racks on to the slider. Now I started to assemble things together by attaching them to the sides. First, I put the driver gear (along with the other pieces assembled with it) into the top whole of the slide. Then I put the pinion gears (that were on the pin) into the bottom whole. I did this process to both side pieces (right and left). Lastly, I lined up the slider (with the dimmer racks attached) with the edge of a toggle plate, and then stuck the sides (with everything else attached) into the wholes of the toggle plate. And now I hade a finished, functional mechanical switch!