Self-powered gaming – Rohan Story
Rohan Story: Recently, I did a second presentation of my exercise bike generator computer game at Dorkbot (people who do interesting things with electricity). You can see a bit of an introduction to it about half way down the page at http://dorkbotsyd.boztek.net/.
The demo consisted of hooking into to Bionx hub motor system’s power lines to measure voltage and current (thus power) going between the generator (motor) and battery. This also involved hooking up a sensor to the steering, and writing a little Java based computer game.
The game was similar to “Snake” where you have to move around to targets. But unlike snake, your moving speed is proportional to the amount of power currently being produced, and the direction is more finely controlled by the handlebars.
