LED generator
After finding out that a piezoelectric disk has enough juice to light an LED I made a generator. I think this concept could very well work much better than those…
Read morePiezo Generator
I’ve been thinking of ways of creating interactivity with LEDs. One of the issues you run into is controlling them. You can control a few with an Arduino easily but…
Read moreEd Begley makes toast
Steve of Canadian Energy Issues brought this CBC Podcast (Skip ahead to 00:24:45) to my attention. Ed Begley, actor and environmentalist makes toast from his pedal generator. I know a toaster needs a lot of…
Read moreHonda Power Supply
I’ve been eyeballing gas powered power supplies over the past while. I was thinking it could serve a lot of purposes. At any sort of trade show or travel, I’d…
Read moreMounting a generator on a pedal bike
Looks like my friend Sanjay will be the first guinea pig for generating electricity from human power. He has an exercise bike which looks great for getting some testing in on some…
Read moreUsing a Stepper Motor as a generator
I would like to make a human powered generator for an art project. Challenge: I am curious if a couple of NEMA 34 motors is large enough to capture all…
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