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$5 Bicycle Cell Phone Charger By 16-Year-Old Romanian Inventor
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Thomas, a brilliant 16-year-old inventor living in Romania, has created a DIY wind turbine cell phone charger for his bike that lets him charge his phone while he rides – and it only cost him $5! He’s shared the instructions on Instructables so that you can make one, too.
The instructions do require some rudimentary knowledge of how to work with electronics, but they are also very clear, so if you’ve got the tools on hand, you’ll figure out how to make Thomas’ green technology invention in no time!
More info: Instructables
16-year-old Romanian inventor Thomas created a $5 DIY wind turbine phone charger:
He often took long bike trips through nature, and his phone’s battery couldn’t keep up
He used a simple PC fan…
…and turned it into a wind turbine
Some of the tools he used:
The parts needed for the project:
For a complete set of instructions, check out his Instructable!
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thomas is not a romanian name .. and if he was such a genius he would have used a dynamo to charge it directly
maybe he didn't have money for a dynamo?
You can actually make a dynamo from a ventillator with little effort (only diff it has 4 coils not 6), so thats not the point.
I'll need to try that. Brilliant!
Lo de la dinamo no esta mal desde luego,pero seguro que al circular te frena mas que el ventilador, ademas el ventilador tiene la ventaja que si esta parado y hace viento,orientas un poco la bicicleta y tambien cargara no ?
Real nice
thomas is not a romanian name .. and if he was such a genius he would have used a dynamo to charge it directly
maybe he didn't have money for a dynamo?
You can actually make a dynamo from a ventillator with little effort (only diff it has 4 coils not 6), so thats not the point.
I'll need to try that. Brilliant!
Lo de la dinamo no esta mal desde luego,pero seguro que al circular te frena mas que el ventilador, ademas el ventilador tiene la ventaja que si esta parado y hace viento,orientas un poco la bicicleta y tambien cargara no ?
Real nice