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Hardware ideas (feddit.ro)

submitted 1 year ago by may_pretender@feddit.ro to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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Hi! I'll be participating in a hackathon next month in the hardware division. I was thinking of making something sollarpunk inspired. I'm posting this to ask for inspiration.

What is some of technology (esp. hardware) that you'd like to see implemented? What is a problem that you'd want solved that could have a potential hardware solution?

I know this is very vague, but I'm curious if anyone has some ideas to share :)

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[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m not an engineer, so disregard if this is entirely too difficult or hard to explain, but: how about a device to capture energy from longboard wheels? I’m imagining a belt that attaches to the back two wheels to spin a motor. If it’s snug up against the center line, then it wouldn’t offset the board very much.

You could use balsa wood to make a miniature version, to test it out. It’s…barely solarpunk, in that the energy used to power the longboard comes from calories.

[–] TheSun@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

.... isn't this just an electric longboard? They have regen braking already most of the time

[–] may_pretender@feddit.ro 1 points 1 year ago

To give some ideas as well, maybe there could be some addons powered from the electric longboard, but I can't really see how they could be useful. The main problem I see is that you'd need a wire coming from the longboard to the user / addon. this seems dangerous.

Maybe you can have the longboard battery be detachable, or have a smaller detachable batterry different from the main one that you could use for other tasks? (both being chardged either externally or through regenerative braking)

But tbh, I think such a project would overcomplicate and miss the point of the longboard.

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