Hamster powered phone charger!!

[pike]

Checkout this this crazy invention:

https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1513938.html

The teenage inventor was given a C for his project and has been awarded a D overall for the course.

LOL a "C"!!!

 

[Dr.EM]

Yeah, I heard about this, quite bizzarre, but not a bad idea. I mean, they used to attach horses to big wheels and make the walk in circles to turn a shaft which could then be used to do work. I guess this is a similar idea, just on a smaller scale.

 

[Someone Electro]

Im quite astounded that it produced enugh power

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Im quite astounded that it produced enugh power

You've obviously never had a hamster! - they don't half get that wheel moving!.

 

[Someone Electro]

Nope i never had an hamster.I just have 2 cats.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Nope i never had an hamster.I just have 2 cats.

I've got 3.5 cats now (and no hamster! - the hamster died years ago).

 

[fsahmed]

I've got 3.5 cats now (and no hamster! - the hamster died years ago).

What happened to the other half of the 4th cat????

 

[Jay.slovak]

3.5? Is that 3 cats and 1 kitten? Or just one cat is missing it's lower part of body? :lol:

 

[Someone Electro]

Meaby one cat is so big it counts as 1.5

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Actually, one of our cats IS that big!.

But the count comes from our three cats, plus next doors cat which spends most of it's time in our house! (which we count as 'half' a cat).

 

[Someone Electro]

No cat aculy dares to come here anymore becose my cats will get in a fight whith evry cat crosing our lawn.

One figth was realy fun to watch.My cat chased the other cat and jumped on it and they started to roll than the jumped toword each other and hit eah other while in the air... and so on

That got me laughing.It was just like an action film whith cats and whithout those special efects.

 

[plot]

How economical is it really though? As in.... how much money would it cost to charge your mobile phone each month using the wall outlet compared to the price of hamster food? :lol:
(and if you charge it in the car, it's free!)


And for a 16 year old boy, why does he have a Winni the Poo cell phone cover? :shock:

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

How economical is it really though? As in.... how much money would it cost to charge your mobile phone each month using the wall outlet compared to the price of hamster food? :lol:
(and if you charge it in the car, it's free!)

Assuming you've already got the hamster, then it's not costing you anything more, because the hamster will run round it's wheel regardless.

In a car, charging isn't 'free', any electrical load (lights etc.) uses fuel from the tank to charge, it's just that the engine consumption for moving the car is so large it swamps any electrical loads so you don't notice them.

And for a 16 year old boy, why does he have a Winni the Poo cell phone cover? :shock:

What's wrong with that? - I have a Starwars Chewbacca phone cover :lol:

 

[Phasor]

And for a 16 year old boy, why does he have a Winni the Poo cell phone cover? :shock:

Nothing wrong with that :? I have Winnie and Tigger squeaking seat belt toys in my car....

 

[Agent 009]

C? Only?

But y only a C??? and a D for the course?

 

[Agent 009]

I think I know y...

I think the D came bc our friend here didn't quite have a good performance in the whole course (Bad past tests and so...)

 

[Agent 009]

Bad Teacher?

Maybe he got a quarrel with the teacher :lol: :?:

 

[mechie]

Maybe his teacher isn't too keen on animal explitation :?:

"I thought the wheel could be made to do something useful so I connected a system of gears and a turbine,"
What could the turbine be doing?

 

[plot]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I've never had an electronics project in school that was to simply build something... Usually there's alot of paperwork involved, cost analysis, parts list, market, operation, user manual, or whatever else... and that's probably where his overall project was lacking.

 

[Agent 009]

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I've never had an electronics project in school that was to simply build something... Usually there's alot of paperwork involved, cost analysis, parts list, market, operation, user manual, or whatever else... and that's probably where his overall project was lacking.

... And ours, in my university, too :wink: :!: I have never seen any student taking part of his cost analysis to the course's advisor or so... There would be paperwork: report, parts list or so, but never market or cort analysis :? ...