"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" Makeshift Windmill Animation

Animation Render created in Autodesk Inventor of a Makeshift Windmill based on William Kamkwamba's original design ("The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"). For more about his story, visit http://movingwindmills.org/documentary

This animation was completed as a part of a GE101 Design Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Science & Technology

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• Autodesk
• Inventor
• Render
• Wind Turbine
• GE101
• William
• Kamkwamba
• Willmill
• Engineering
• Design Project
• GE 101
• University of Illinois
• UIUC

[cyclone219]

@MainOffenderKZ Yes, that little black thing near the outside of the wheel is a bike dynamo, it takes the motion of the spinning wheel and converts it to electricity.

[MainOffenderKZ]

how is energy converted into electricity???

is that that lil black thing near the outside of the wheal??

what is this and how its called??