Half Brainer Wind Turbine

Half Brainer Wind Turbine

If I managed to build it and it works so you can make it too. This is no joke. I've built this one with only half brain.

I came back from my exhausting night shift at work and wanted to spend some time in something useful and guess what I could come up with. Yes. A working wind turbine.

I really come from night shift feeling that I am only thinking and seeing the world with only half a brain. Let's get started.

Note:

This is how I look after coming home from a night shift.

Step 1: Collect Stuff

Components:

Here are the components for this project , you can see that nearly all of them are recycled materials :

Motor Amazon US , Amazon DE , Amazon FR, Amazon UK , Amazon CA , Amazon ES , Amazon IT , eBay , Banggood , FlipKart India , Lazada Malaysia , aliexpress

This was the only new component I bought for this project.

Old steel groom --- This is the main pole for the wind turbine

Tie rap Amazon US , Amazon DE , Amazon FR, Amazon UK , Amazon CA , Amazon ES , Amazon IT , eBay , Banggood , FlipKart India , Lazada Indonesia , Lazada Malaysia , aliexpress

Old CD-Rom player metal cover --- This is the directing rudder. For wind turbine automatic direction through all wind situations.

PET bottle ---- To cover and protect the motor against dust and water.

Some Wires

1 mm Copper wire

1.5 Pet Bottles

Tools :

Pliers Amazon US, Amazon UK , Amazon CA , Amazon DE , Amazon FR , Amazon ES , Amazon IT , Banggood , Aliexpress , eBay

Scissors Amazon US , Aliexpress , eBay

Gardening Scissors Amazon US , Amazon UK , Amazon CA , Amazon DE , Amazon FR , Amazon ES , Amazon IT , Banggood , Aliexpress , eBay

Step 2: First Trial

Actually I intended to build a vertical axis wind turbine using two PET bottles.

First, I cut the two bottles to make fins.

Then I welded the two bottles from their top using heat.

And made holes for generator and for Copper wires.

Then installed the generator and fixed it using Copper wires.

Failure. Just another none rotating vertical axis wind turbine.

The bottles didn't make enough torque to rotate the generator.

Step 3: Second Trial - Success

Using half brain, I've decided to cut the bottles bottoms hoping to make some rotation.

Using trial and error, I've discovered what works and what doesn't.

And then I cut the bottles to shape each one if them into something that looks similar to wind turbines blades to generate enough torque for rotation.

Success. It works and generates electricity.

Also another thing I discovered about this wind turbine is that it is completely safe to you and to your kids.

The blades are very elastic and delicate. Even if it hits something while rotating there is no problem at all.

Thanks for reading my post.

From my instructable

https://www.instructables.com/id/Half-Brainer-Wind-Turbine/

Arduino VGA Output

Arduino is very simple yet useful platform for learning and prototyping Embedded Systems projects.

I wanted to learn how to generate VGA output signals using Arduino.

I remember trying to build a similar circuit using PIC16F84A here.


So I searched instructables.com because I make sure to have something that is tried to be working.

Here are some useful links of Arduino VGA interface projects I found on instructables.com



This project is a nice and straight forward circuit that uses Arduino to make a Tetris Game.

http://www.instructables.com/id/VGA-Tetris-With-Arduino-Uno/

This is the video of the game in action

Components:

- Arduino       

 Banggood  Amazon US, Amazon FR,Amazon DE, eBay, FlipKart India

- 15 Pin VGA Connector  

Banggood, Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon FR

- Resistors: 2 x 68 Ohm

                   2 x 470 Ohm 

                   4 x  2 k Ohm

- Four Push Buttons

- Verro Board     

Banggood , Amazon US, Amazon DE , AmazonFR

- Speaker

This is the pinout of the VGA connector

Hardware:

Circuit diagram shows how simple it is

Here is how the circuit looks like

Here is a nice enclosure for the circuit

Here is the screen shot of the Monitor with Tetris Game on it

Software:

Arduino IDE Code 

Version with sound

VGAx Library

More details can be found in this Arduino forum.

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I've heard about Arduino Web Editor from a while. All what I heard that it will be coming soon. But I totally forgot the idea.

Today, I was introduced to Arduino Web Editor through Arduino Create Platform.

I saw the idea and was admired with it. So I wanted to share it with my friends.

What is Arduino Create?
Imagine that you can actually access, edit and compile your Arduino code from any device and from anywhere with the ease and accessibility of the cloud.

With something like DropBox and Google Cloud Services, you can get your Arduino project into Arduino IDE from any device, on any platform and from anywhere.

Advantages:
Compatibility, Potability and ease of use.



I started by visiting Arduino Create page and followed the step-by-step guide to using Arduino Web Editor.

Started with downloading Arduino Web Editor Plugin from here. Then installed it.

The instructions tells you to restart your browser to get the plugin running.

I got this screenshot after I installed Arduino Web Editor Plugin and restated my Chrome Browser.

You can see the error indicating that no Arduino board is connected yet.

But as you can see that this cloud service has all functions as a typical Arduino IDE.

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Here is how it looks like

You can draw components of your sketch

You can see all libraries and examples

Here you can share your projects

Here is my first blink sketch. From the Examples

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