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Potato Powered MP3 Player!

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Earth, Educational, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, Video, mp3 by max on the February 1st, 2007 at 6:32 pm

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Okay, we’ve been getting some strange sources of power lately including the lemon power and candle power, here’s potato powered MP3 Player!

TighT!

We are working on our touchscreen MP3 player by the way, we are trying to locate a CSS CCS PIC compiler this week so hopefully by next week we will have it made.

This appliance is, of course, closely related to the lemon battery (or more formally lemon cell) familiar to anyone who’s searched for a high school science project. Two different metallic objects dipped into a conduction solution (an electrolyte) will produce an electrochemical reaction the byproduct of which is electricity. A single lemon is usually enough to illuminate a flashlight bulb, but two sweet potatoes are apparently required for an mp3 player. Yes, it reduces the portability of your player, but just think…no more buying batteries! Of course, things might get a bit smelly as those sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) start to go off.

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2 Comments »

Comment by Izl Subscribed to comments via email
2007-08-28 09:24:51

Saw this on metacafe, Its similar to the candle powered light bulb

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Comment by Carl
2007-08-28 13:23:52

Izl , that one is not possible but this can be

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