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It's not that long...try re-reading it. No
piezo. Too little energy. |
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The angle of the light from shoes might be too low to be useful. Have you tried this with battery-powered lights? Do you mean for the lights to flash on when the shoe hits the ground? Or to stay on all the time? Either one is going to look strange and illuminate oddly. |
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Was the word "pneumatically" intended as a hint to your design? I have trouble getting from air to LEDs without turbines. If there is too little energy for piezo, with few moving parts, you must have an exceptionally efficient design in mind. |
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When the questions are longer than the "idea", something is wrong somewhere. I should have just fish-boned this wish and got on with my life. |
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Well bacon, I don't know in advance
what questions there would be. I edited
the idea now. Don't be so cruel with the
bones. |
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Good idea. My son always gets LED shoes (especially in the winter when it's dark). The batteries never last the season though - self-charging would be better. Shoes only last about 6-12 months though, so it would have to be cheap and disposable, though I suspect you are correct about piezo not providing . How's about a bar magnet loose inside a coil? As you run, the magnet will slide back and forth inducing a small current in the coil - use that to top up the battery. |
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Bayless was featured in Wired at least three years ago. (Rummage rummage) actually it was five. |
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