Hackaday Prize 2022: A 3D Printed Portable Wind Turbine For Hikers
If you’re out in the wilderness and off the grid, but still need to charge your phone, the most obvious way to do that is by using a solar panel. Light, flat and without moving parts, they’re easy to...
View ArticleLeading Edge Erosion: When Precipitation Destroys Wind Turbine Blades
Erosion is all around us, from the meandering course of rivers and other waterways, to the gradual carving out of channels in even the toughest mountains, and the softening of features in statues. Yet...
View ArticleScratch Built Wind Turbine Makes Power And Turns Heads
If you’ve ever aspired to live off the grid, then it’s likely that one of the first things you considered was how to power all of your electrical necessities, and also where to uh… well we’ll stick to...
View ArticleHow Simple Can A Wind Generator Get?
As the world has moved towards sustainable energy sources over the last few years, it’s increasingly common to be close to a wind turbine. The huge turbines visible on the horizon from where this is...
View ArticleConverting Wind to Electricity or: The Doubly-Fed Induction Generator
Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends...
View ArticleHackaday Prize 2023: A 3D Printed Vertical Wind Turbine
We feature a lot of off-grid power projects here at Hackaday, whether they’re a micropower harvester or something to power a whole house. Somewhere in the middle lies [esposcar90]’s 3D-printed vertical...
View ArticleAirloom’s Whacky Wind Clothesline Turbine Idea
What if you don’t put airfoils on a central, spinning axis, but instead have them careen around a circular track? If you’re a company called Airloom, you’d say that it’s a very cheap, very efficient...
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