So far I have found not a specific name for anything we could either A, build, or B, buy. They have nanowires, but that is a recent development. Some websites also said that piezoelectric discs did that, but from my previous research I believed that piezoelectric discs released energy from...
I thought you meant a different type of generator, those were more expensive. Our goal is to harvest kinetic energy from something no one has done yet, but perhaps we can build off this. Thanks! :)
If we need about 5 v to charge a phone that would be three discs...is there a certain way to arrange the discs so they don't cancel one another out or is that not a potential problem with piezoelectric discs? Thanks
Is it against gravity or the force of it hitting the piezo? Sorry, little confused. Is their a particular equation to use? I found multiple on google...
Yes, we have. However, they had already been done we learned upon googling and we wanted to do something original. We understand that it has to be a quick "squeeze and release" for lack of a better terms so we thought of a computer keyboard, a mouse, shoes, and the floor. All had been done. What...
Sorry, we weren't assuming constant pressure...we assumed from tossing and turning during the course of the night it wouldn't be constant. So the pressure of the head wouldn't be fast enough deforming and releasing? We did know it had to release, just not the speed of. So this wouldn't be a way...
Hello! We're in 8th grade and our doing a project-not homework. Our goal is to put piezoelectric plates inside a pillow and harvest the energy from the pressure of the head on the plate during the night and use it to charge a phone. However, from this point we are a little confused. We've been...