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$5 Bicycle Cell Phone Charger By 16-Year-Old Romanian Inventor
$5 Bicycle Cell Phone Charger By 16-Year-Old Romanian Inventor
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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

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    16-year-old Romanian inventor Thomas created a $5 DIY wind turbine phone charger:

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    He often took long bike trips through nature, and his phone’s battery couldn’t keep up

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    He used a simple PC fan…

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    …and turned it into a wind turbine

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    Some of the tools he used:

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    The parts needed for the project:

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    For a complete set of instructions, check out his Instructable!

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    Dovas

    Dovas

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    Dovas

    Dovas

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    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

    What do you think ?
    BogdanMandru
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    thomas is not a romanian name .. and if he was such a genius he would have used a dynamo to charge it directly

    IlincaZirra
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe he didn't have money for a dynamo?

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    MarkFlower
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll need to try that. Brilliant!

    Jose Angel Ruiz Obregon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 ?

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    MarcoAlvaradoMirón
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would not spin just by riding your bike.

    RobBale
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great way to keep your phone's battery charging when on the go.

    AdrianBat
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    on his Instructables page he says about himself that he's Hungarian guy. so despite his techical fan-to-the-bike skills, send that kid to learn some basic geography and common sense.

    dbradley
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hard to imagine that this works better than the old headlight generators they had, but I guess if you had the parts for free...

    racingcourne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So creative! And it's only $5! Wow!

    BogdanOprea
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy who invented the dynamo must be feeling really sad right now....

    NeleRS
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think this will charge the battery quickly...I mean you need to drive a littlebit faster to make this props rotating...

    BogdanMandru
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    thomas is not a romanian name .. and if he was such a genius he would have used a dynamo to charge it directly

    IlincaZirra
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe he didn't have money for a dynamo?

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    MarkFlower
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll need to try that. Brilliant!

    Jose Angel Ruiz Obregon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 ?

    Load More Replies...
    MarcoAlvaradoMirón
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would not spin just by riding your bike.

    RobBale
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great way to keep your phone's battery charging when on the go.

    AdrianBat
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    on his Instructables page he says about himself that he's Hungarian guy. so despite his techical fan-to-the-bike skills, send that kid to learn some basic geography and common sense.

    dbradley
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hard to imagine that this works better than the old headlight generators they had, but I guess if you had the parts for free...

    racingcourne
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So creative! And it's only $5! Wow!

    BogdanOprea
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The guy who invented the dynamo must be feeling really sad right now....

    NeleRS
    Community Member
    10 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think this will charge the battery quickly...I mean you need to drive a littlebit faster to make this props rotating...

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