MAKE: television Episode 7: Urban Projections & Wind Generator

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By Make: television
Posted 2009/02/13 @ 8:53 am
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Bike along with Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors that transform public spaces into massive sound and light shows. In the Workshop, John Park combines a used treadmill motor and PVC pipe to build a wind generator, and William Gurstelle tests hardware on a giant trebuchet. The Maker Channel features a balloon organ, a ball-fetching autonomous robot, and a lie-detector wristband.

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11 Responses to MAKE: television Episode 7: Urban Projections & Wind Generator

Todd on June 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am said:

hi I just discovered Make on my PBS channel, and it’s FANTASTIC!! Just now exploring your website , & I love it!!
Keep up the great work, everybody!! Thanks!!!

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jamal on June 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm said:

the video was hard to understand for me. I was wondering if someone can email me the items and their dimentions listed here. ?

jamal
cemenc@gmail.com

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- Make: television on June 23rd, 2009 at 9:21 am said:
  
  Here are the detailed plans, http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/television/wind.pdf
  
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  krbarta on March 9th, 2010 at 5:32 pm said:
  
  Can’t download plans. pdf file is “stopped” . Generally have no trouble downloading pdfs. thanks, Ken Barta
  
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don on February 14th, 2010 at 11:20 am said:

Love the show!! love the wind generator,very creative!! one suggestion,to get a true and useful output measurement,it should be in watts,not volts.I’m not critisizing,just a suggestion.I’m not able to tell what it would be useable for without a wattage rating.Thanks and keep up the great ideas!!!!,Don

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BillT on April 8th, 2011 at 5:00 pm said:

Say we can’t find a 260VDC treadmill motor but rather a 130VDC, how should we change our plans to accommodate?

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Daan Vervaeren on October 21st, 2011 at 11:41 am said:

Can you guys please send a link to those plans for the wind generator thingy ! Or are they already on this page , Cos I can’t find them ! I want them because we need to make a Integrated Project to graduate from secondary school, and it needs to be something mechanic an electric ! And I’m am thinking of the mini windgenerator , so PLEASE help me out with this ! thanks in Advance

Daan Vervaeren

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ALEX SERBECK on October 3rd, 2012 at 10:29 pm said:

I CAN NOT FINE THE PLANS FOR THE WIND GENERATOR EPISODE 107

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- John Edgar Park on October 3rd, 2012 at 10:37 pm said:
  
  http://cdn.makezine.com/make/television/wind.pdf
  
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tracy on October 30th, 2012 at 2:18 pm said:

the treadmill motor flywheel is 19 inches round so what will that be evenly spaced 3 times , thanks for your help

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Judd Reese on June 18th, 2013 at 8:00 pm said:

I would love to know the tread mill you got the motor from or the model # and mfg of the motor.
Judd

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