[Noisebridge-discuss] bike-powered phone charger

[Rachel McConnell]

A couple possibly helpful Instructables are these:

http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Bike-Generator/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicyle-Power-for-Your-Television,-Laptop,-or-Cell-/

(I work for Instructables; there are surely lots more other sites with 
useful info but these are what I know about offhand)

Rachel

On 6/2/11 11:44 AM, Jonathan Foote wrote:
> Great idea. I just saw this from seeedstudio:
>
> http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/bicycle-dynamo-with-bracket-6v-3w-p-798.html
>
> This plus a 7805, a diode, and a capacitor would likely work, but  a
> more elegant solution might be a DC-DC converter or Mintyboost
> (http://www.adafruit.com/products/14) that charges from the dynamo
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:32 AM, suzanne mcnulty<sfsuenvs at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a long bike tour coming up and am wondering if there is anyone who would be interested in helping me make a bike-powered phone charger? The only experience I have is taking the soldering class with Mitch so any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Suzanne
>>
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