I talked to a few science majors and the best idea they had was the ide of using the motion of your legs to generate energy. I then asked them to think more and they said another idea was to use your weight to make energy. Put little spings or whatever on your feet and as you walk, the force down on the ground gets turned into engery. On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Charles J Knight wrote: > >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 > > ... > >Nice idea, but hard to implement to any use, especially when you're > >talking about a wearable computer that sucks amps not milliamps. > > There is a clockwork wind-up radio available for survivalists -- wind > up electronic devices are obviously possible. It's just whether it's > efficient, where batteries are easily available and otherwise practical. > > I wonder if a "self-winding" mechanism would be more practical? > They've been proven in wrist and pocket watches for centuries, and > the bugs are all worked out. I wonder if something larger would > be practical? (or arrays of small ones) > > I also wonder if Seiko ever released the specs for their electronic > self-winding watch? I think it was just a crude generator coil > hooked into the same self-winding flywheel -- but saying something > by Seiko is crude is not exactly natural. Seiko watches always had > a high degree of precision. > > Scaling it up... > > Does anyone know if a self-winding mechanism was ever put on a full > sized clock? Something like a ship's chronometer would have been > a natural, since the movement on the water would have kept it wound. > > -- Chuck Knight > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > > -- > 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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