Just got the news — the Personal powerPlant made the Top 15 in the Instructables Laser Cutter Contest! It’s now up to user votes, so go vote and help the girls win a new cutter!
(Which hopefully I can occasionally use. Hee.)
VOTE, bitches!
More fun news! I’d been working over the course of last month with Mouna Andraos, Jennifer Broutin, and Carmen Trudell at Eyebeam on ideas for the Alternative Energy Workshop (which went down on June 23rd), and from it came a killer idea: the personal powerPlant. People were coming to take the workshop in [...]
Door Secure is a home and building security camera that uses renewable energy sources. This approach lessens the owner’s dependence on non-renewable energy while ensuring the camera works when it is needed most.
The myriad devices that we rely on in our daily habits can draw a lot of power, but many continue to do so [...]
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I’ve been looking in depth into the ideas we’d been discussing this semester in Sustainable Energy, thinking a bit more about the essays from The Bottomless Well, and considering my past projects in this class — and above all, I’ve been thinking about what I can do for a final that would have the biggest [...]
It’s something of a painful reminder that the semester is nearing its end, but we’ve been told it’s time to declare our finals ideas for Sustainable Energy, which is probably a good idea given that we only have a few weeks left to actually plan and execute them. Eek.
We were assigned a packet to [...]
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Posted 21 March 2007
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So it all started with this guy:
This was a gift from a friend many moons ago, and it’s just a little flower that sways back and forth
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Posted 06 March 2007
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Seth and I have been talking about our next project for Sustainable Energy, and we’re thinking about building a flower that blooms when it’s under sunlight. Cute, huh? Anyhoo, we’re thinking it could be made out of or be surrounded by PV (solar stuff), and bloom (probably by servo or something) when it gets enough [...]
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Posted 19 February 2007
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As I’d mentioned here earlier, Matt Burton and I had spent the past three weeks working on this idea we’d had for harvesting the kinetic energy used to slide the doors on the ITP floor back and forth. As nearly all the classrooms on our floor have big glass sliding doors, we figured we’d be [...]
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Just got back a bit ago from Habana Labs’ third workshop, and it freaking ruled. Jeff set up this great series with the help of Habana Outpost and Glide Design Studios (who [...]
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Posted 03 February 2007
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