I HAD THIS IDEA! I tried it with my physics teacher. We made a large version, with a big coil, large magnet, and hefty spring. The most we could get out of it, after a lot of messing around, was one or two milliamps. Smaller apparatus would give even less power, and the walking movement doesn't actually make much vertical movement in the spring anyway. Nice idea, but hard to implement to any use, especially when you're talking about a wearable computer that sucks amps not milliamps. Rob Lee Adamson wrote: > How about a coil with a core inside hooked to a spring, strapped to the leg, > so that the core bounced up and down while you walked? > > Is there any way that this could generate enough power to run a wearable, or > at least extend run-time? Prolly not... -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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