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Charge up your iPod with a mini steam engine
Steampunk meets iPodatude with this unique charger, combining a Jensen #75 steam engine with a LEGO Technic motor, a 5V regulator circuit and a .5 amp fuse to create enough power to charge any USB device. Stoke it with a few pellets and add water, and your Steampunk Eye-Pod Victrola is going round and round again.
For those of you who are electrically inclined, this might not be too difficult to create. For the rest of us, we'll sit back in awe, marveling over the juxtaposition of past, present and perhaps future, occasionally blowing the engine's whistle as it replenishes our electro-gadgets. Priceless.
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By democratsarefascists at 5:37 PM ON 04/10/09
Fun, but really tags the whole Democrat energy policy thing in one metaphor.
All that to charge an iPod.
Overbuilt, single-purpose and totally ineffective for its scale.
By repinsnug at 8:48 PM ON 04/10/09
Way to read into it way to much....someone got politics in my tech blog. Also given the amount of heat transfer required and water required its probably about as small as it could be.
By HowardG at 12:32 PM ON 04/11/09
Excellent fun.
And Alan Shore would love it.
Now 'democratsarefascists' you are such a killjoy ... doubtless you counted hairs on your puppy when young JUST to be sure of its genetic integrity.
Sheeeesh ....
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