Group:

Jay Hsiao, Felix Anderson, Saman Tehrani

So, we are changing our original idea to something different, a lot more simple than previously. Our idea is to make a shoe that charges a portable battery to charge your phone. A lot of people waste energy walking, or doing something constructive. Well, why not use that energy? We will take thermal energy, the wasted energy from walking and convert it into electric energy to store in the portable battery, so that way when a person is running low on battery life and has nowhere to charge their phone, they can take the portable battery out of their shoe and start to charge their phone that way. The concept is a portable battery will be stored seamlessly in the shoe or the in the sole, and every time you walk, it recharges the battery. Hopefully, our device will be used for many devices in one, such as the iPhone, Android, HTC, and tablets. This is a useful device, and something people can make use everyday. People walk and use their phones majority of their time, so we have thought of combining the two, which go hand in hand.

Timeline:

We will meet every Tuesday to work and talk about the project.

10-7:
Find research about the technologies used to convert thermal energy into electrical energy and fully understand the concept.

10-14:
Start testing on the product. Illustrate an idea of how it would work and implement in the shoe.

10-21:
Have a prototype that works complete.

Things we need:
-Arduino