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Hand-Powered Hardware?

Posted by timothy on from the for-the-coming-apocalypse dept.

quiddity writes "Following the Goofy USB Devices post, one has to know what can be self-powered when the batteries all die. You can handcrank your Gameboy, recharge your cellphone or pda (even grandpa), wind up a webserver (with minions, a beowulf..), see in the dark, and project a movie. What else can we propel through the next blackout/apocalypse?" Some of these devices have have been on Slashdot before; what cool hand-powered tech hasn't been and should be?

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  1. Re:Universal Battery Replacement? by benjamindees · · Score: 5, Informative
    • bicycle
    • electric motor
    • package of various resistors
    • diode(s)
    • speaker wire
    • basic electronics book/training

    There isn't much you can't power with this type of setup.
    --
    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"