Radish: Environmentally Friendly Conference Rooms
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at
8:54 am
The story of the Radish is a mix of MAKE with an environmental flare. Watch how 20% time has enabled a device that runs on indoor solar and updates epaper every hour. See this article for more information on the Radish: code.google.com
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so cool
IMHO this is awesome. I am an electronic engineering student in the UK and projects like this are excellent feedstock to keep my imagination teaming with new ideas. Bravo google, Aaron Spangler and MAKE!
Really cool !
If solar is not enough for frequent updates, maybe adding a pull-cord generator would help.
I wouldn’t mind giving it a pull to make sure it’s up to date on dark days.
It’s not actually green. It’s just less bad. Most of that stuff, including the circuit board, are not recyclable.
Using a solar panel indoors means that it will never produce enough energy to offset it’s own production cost.
Here’s an idea: tape a long copper wire to the door to act as a larger antenna, and a fast diode to rectify whatever radio energy it picks up. See if that’s enough to trickle charge the capacitor.
Wow.. its like a solar pummer but does something useful.
I like it
one another reason that makes me want to work for google…people spending %20 of their times on these kind of projects…awesome
Hi Aaron,
Nice work!
Would it be possible for you to post a parts-source list and circuit diagram? There are many aspect of this project that would be useful to other folks who like to build things.
Thanks.
i just typed up environmental friendly products to rate five stars LMAO XP
Very awesome. 20% time FTW