Power peripherals

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Projects & Details

Voltage Regulator

  • Develop basic voltage regulator that limits voltage and current to XO
  • Redesign voltage regulator to produce variable outputs
  • Redesign version 2 of regular to all it to charge multiple XOs
  • Possible mechanical design of voltage regulator housing (need to evaluate later)
  • Thermal analysis of regulator (need to evaluate later)

Bicycle Powered Generator

  • Review of literature
  • Development of bicycle powered generator design
  • Building generator

Power Deployment Guide

  • Summarize wiki information and commentary on OLPC mailing lists related to power
  • Put information in easy-to-read guide on power deployment options
  • Make guide widely available

Solar Setup Testing

  • Develop testing methodologies for evaluating a XO solar setup
  • Testing solar setup & publish findings

Thermoelectric Power Generation

  • Explore potential for using thermoelectrics for powering XOs

Milestones

  • Basic voltage regulator built (6/25- DONE)
  • Variable voltage regulator built (7/7)
  • Design of Bicycle Generator (7/15)
  • Voltage regulator for charging multiple XOs (7/18)
  • Revisit milestone schedule (7/18)
  • Testing plan for solar testing (7/18)
  • Acquire materials for bicycle generator (7/22)
  • Draft Deployment Guide (7/25)
  • Bicycle Generator built (7/31)
  • Visit to Factor E Farm for testing solar setup and bicycle generator (8/1)
  • Generator documentation (8/8)
  • Final Deployment guide (8/15)
  • Final solar testing data report (8/15)