Wind powered tank anyone??? Light switch thing reminds me of something. If you could reverse the current somehow you could rig a servo to a dimmer switch and have a home made esc with proportional control. Wonder if it would work...
On 10 Oct, 01:46, Gregory Pwneror <[email protected]> wrote: > This man is inspiration that you can all build your RC > tanks.http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/http://hackaday.com/2009/10/08/william-kamkwamba-talks-windmills-with...http://hackaday.com/2009/10/02/hacker-rewarded-for-creating-electricity/ > > William Kamkwamba a windmill completely out of scrap to give his families > hut in Malawi power for lights and a radio. He also built a really clever > circuit breaker, a bridge rectifier and a homemade light switch. He dropped > out of school when he was 13 because there was a famine in Malawi and his > family couldn't afford to send him to school. He went to the US government > funded library and got a book about wind power out, he decided to make one > and 8 months later he finished it at age 14. He's also built a second > windmill for irrigation. The mills don't rotate, they just face the > direction of the prevailing wind. > > -Gregory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
