INDEX 2007 Summer Camp: “Take Action. Move a little”
| Team: | Clara Christensen, Francesco Fraioli, Leungo Tumedi & Tobias Toft |
| Grade: | Not graded |
| When: | Summer 2007 |
| Company: | None |
The overall topic of INDEX is “Design to improve life”. Our project concentrated on energy and especially the environmental aspects of the massive energy consumption the world has today. The project dealt with the concept of harvesting energy from the human body or the movement of human beings. As we wanted to go a as concrete as possible, we decided to work with the well-known technologies based on induction (e.g. dynamos).
We constructed a prototype of a desk lamp which was driven by a footpedal. Being the engineer in the group, I did some calculations on the desk lamp and different other concepts and it quickly showed that there is a potential for replacing the batteries in small devices, with a human-powered generator. Take a look at the Youtube video below this paragraph, to get an impression of the types of concepts we worked on.