LumiLife

Posted by on Apr 25, 2010 in Sustainable Energy | No Comments

LumiLife is a solar powered lantern that during the day sleeps and charges and comes alive with breath and light at night. It uses a nocturnal circuit and a motor control circuit to light up and bellow the lamp. It was designed and created by Susan Ngo and Zeven Rodriguez. LumiLife from Zeven Rodriguez on ...

Charlotte’s Web

Posted by on Mar 26, 2010 in Sustainable Energy | No Comments

Zeven and I are creating a solar powered tone generator for our final with a form factor of a spider. A miller engine circuit will power the “legs” which will act as switches to set off the tones. We are using the simple LM 386 amplifier circuit and a hacked into Hex Schmitt Trigger. Both ...

Pan Ball Flute Update

Posted by on Feb 26, 2010 in Sustainable Energy | No Comments

For the first iteration of the pan ball flute, I decided to create a mock up of how this would work. The pan ball flute is set up like a piston in a car. This first iteration is using one magnet piston with a piezo buzzer, a led and a rectifier. The magnet induction piston ...

Solar Presentation

Posted by on Feb 18, 2010 in Sustainable Energy | No Comments

Solar Presentation

Pan-Ball Flute

Posted by on Feb 4, 2010 in Sustainable Energy | No Comments

The Pan-Ball Flute is a hand crank device the pulls back a pinball style lever. Once the lever is let go a magnet advances passing through the coils and hitting a piezo. The crank has crowbar style forks that pull back the lever. The intention is that with combination of generators my hope is to ...