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
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