Megan MacMurray

Kinetic Energy

Step 1

Found a Stepper Moter from an old printer. Pulled it out and soldered headers on it. Soldered it to a serial port to for an easy LED test, to make sure the motor works.


Step 2

Then we set up our board with diode bridge to convert ac to dc.

Readings Current and Voltage from Multimeter

3 V power by hand
6 v powered by Salad Spinner

56 mAmp by hand

We are moving foward with the salad spinner as a possible tool for charging batteries. Angela has documentation here Also, check out my Flickr

Check out the One Kid Band make some music. Kind of. HERE