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Comment by mmanfrin

Do you (or does anyone) know how much power something like that would use? I've been wanting to make a tiny tracking device (using 2G instead of Wifi), but I didn't pay very good attention in my high school physics class, so I don't know if a tiny cell chip + tiny gps chip could last long without power.

I've looked in to little tumble generators (I don't know the actual term, something that could generate power off of movement) but again, my knowledge is lacking in that department.

Would make for neat little animal tracking devices, if they could generate power from movement, store in a battery, and then 'pulse' out on a regular interval (whatever interval is allowed by the generation from the shake/tumble generator).

parent mmanfrin 10 years ago

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