Wireless Power Transmission, Part III

Today’s going to be a great day. We’re making progress on the project.¹ Our plan:

1. Print prior art and put in a binder
2. Review prior art
3. Decide on prototype
4. Buy materials for prototype
5. Build prototype
6. Smoke test prototype
7. Experiment with prototype

Print prior art and put in a binder

We printed all the material we found and posted here and here, three-hole-punched it and put it in a binder. Thanks to FinePrint,² we didn’t use as much paper as we might otherwise have.

Review prior art

So much for this being a quick process. Instead, we just found a bunch more to review, this time at YouTube.

• Wireless Electricity (for under $20) and epower’s YouTube channel
• The Gadget Show – Wireless Electricity
• Wireless Energy Transfer
• Intel Seattle’s Wireless Energy Project
• MIT Physics Demo — Inductor Radio

Also interesting is MIT’s “Goodbye wires!” which links to a PDF of their paper, “Efficient wireless non-radiative mid-range energy transfer.”

Decide on prototype

It’s hard to beat cheap, so we’re going to attempt the Wireless Electricity (for under $20) project, though that cost estimate seems to assume already having a stocked experimenter’s lab. This is sending us down the bifilar winding rat hole and into Tesla territory. A lot of strange stuff (and denizens) there.

Buy materials for prototype

That starts tomorrow.

But wait — there’s more

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