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08/17/2006

Home-Built Pedal Powered TV

David Butcher created this "Pedal Powered Prime Mover" to power his 32-inch television. Put simply, if "you pedal at 70 watt output and watch TV for an hour while pedaling, the surplus (10 Wh) gets stored, but you can only draw 8 Wh back out of the battery -- enabling you to watch TV for an additional 8 minutes." Video after the jump. DIY plans here.

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Posted at 08/17/2006 05:38am by two head
I've wanted to make one of those for ages.
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Posted at 08/17/2006 11:36am by norGadget
Se på TV med god samvittighet Hvis du har litt dårlig samvittighet for at du ser for mye på tv, da kan du kanskje forsøke å kopiere dette prosjektet. Ved hjelp av en generator på en sykkel, noen kondensatorer og voltomformer har de klart å generere nok strøm til en 32 tom...
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Posted at 08/17/2006 1:30pm by DR Red
http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pedgen.html not work :(
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Posted at 08/17/2006 6:21pm by Julien
completely irrelavent, but that tv doesn't look like its a 32 inch tv.
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Posted at 11/24/2006 7:30pm by 我不喜欢-Blog » Home-Built Pedal Powered Laptop
[...] This followup to the pedal-powered TV, builds upon that creation and uses the same technology to power an IBM ThinkPad. What are your thoughts? Video after the jump. The PPPM is used to power a laptop with pedal power. An easy pedal, the laptop is cold-booted and the video finishes with the laptop connected to the local wireless network. Add a laptop table, and pedal while you surf [...]
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Posted at 12/19/2006 7:08pm by Top 5 Strangest Laptop Mods at RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets
[...] > > >> This followup to the pedal-powered TV, builds upon that creation and uses the same technology to power an IBM ThinkPad. What are your thoughts? The PPPM is used to power a laptop with pedal power. An easy pedal, the laptop is cold-booted and the video finishes with the laptop connected to the local wireless network. Add a laptop table, and pedal while you surf Copyright © 2006 TechEBlog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.techeblog.com so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana [...]
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Posted at 12/20/2006 02:34am by fred derf
the peddle powered TV was done about 25 years ago on the TV show Real People. Sometime in the early 80's.
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