A housing in the works

22Apr08

I spent the evening with a good friend of mine, Matthew Flego an industrial designer, at his metal fabrication shop, Ferra Design in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. He and I plotted out the design for a 12 gauge stainless steal housing for the inDOOR Harvester module in Solid Works, a 3d object CAD application.

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The InDOOR Harvester Dashboard

19Apr08

A glimpse at the revised version of the online dashboard monitor for the energy harvesting module.
It been a big javascript learning curve this past week, but well worth it.
Many more features and improvement still to come, as well as further data integration.
check it out – let me know what you think.

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inDOOR Harvester prototype 1.1

02Apr08

I’ve spent the last two week testing and researching linear motion guides, blocks and rails, to carry the gear motor along the door and across a rack. Due to exploding bearings and bent rails, McMaster-Carr has both saved my thesis and made a nice chunk of change. A far more effective and elegant [...]

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