It would seem that the formatting for the hyperlinks has died for some people. The 3 links are: http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/ Link 2: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/08/william-kamkwamba-talks-windmills-with-jon-stewart/
Link 3: http://hackaday.com/2009/10/02/hacker-rewarded-for-creating-electricity/ Link 2 shows the circuit breaker. You could use a potentiometer, but not a light dimmer I think. The pot would have to be huge if you just used it, you'd have to attach it to a big transistor, which would work. -Gregory On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Sgt.A.Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
