I read about that some time ago in the manual to my watch: (... about watches with clockworks...) Care about your watch like the smallest machine in the world, that takes only 1/1,000,000 HP to oscillate 432,000 per day! Ok, one millionth of a HP in watchsize, take some of them, and you'll quickly have enough.... Johannes! Robert Paris schrieb: > 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" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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