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The Zephyr Charge: A Wind-Powered Usb Charger, James Dean Carson, John Pina Lopez Iii
The Zephyr Charge: A Wind-Powered Usb Charger, James Dean Carson, John Pina Lopez Iii
Electrical Engineering
The Zephyr Charge project is to design and build a cell phone charger using a small wind turbine generator that can be useful to the fishermen community, namely fishermen of third world countries. The generator will output to USB for ease of charging capability. The size of the whole system should be light enough to move around, and the turbine itself will be mountable onto an edge of a wall. The goal of this project is to design and build a compact and easy to use cell phone charger, which is also efficient.
In order to be a practical product, …