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A personal project to design a home wind turbine, creating a working scale model prototype.
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During the project I printed and tested a series of different turbine blades, using various motors, gear ratios etc, together with a breadboard and multimeter to test the different configurations.
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The blades were printed in mutliple parts and then connected to accomoadate the smaller print bed.
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