Well...

> A combination of the bike spoke article above and trying to get my kid to sleep while making flashlight
> shadows on the ceiling led me down a path of how to put LEDs on a ceiling fan and power them from
> the motion of the fan blades turning. Thought about small wind powered generators and guess that's
> what I'll need to work on.

Oh If its on a fan, can't you put a sleeve over the spindle, hard
mount it to the fan itself and use belt drive to a dc motor as a
generator? O-rings work well for belts..

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andrew

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