SRM Institute of Science and Technology · 2012–2016 · Engineering Foundations

Piezoelectric Energy Experiment

Student Engineer

Sound to vibration to piezoelectric output to measured electricity, with the results recorded exactly as they came out.

Piezoelectric Energy Experiment — concept visualization — Concept visualization. An original render of the idea, not a photograph of the actual site or system.

↳ Part of Early Engineering and Prototyping

Student Engineer.

An experiment in harvesting electricity from sound: acoustic energy into vibration, vibration into piezoelectric output, output into a measured trickle of electricity. The numbers were small and I report them as small. The value was in the measuring, building an experiment honest enough to tell you that an appealing idea produces microwatts.

Learning to let a measurement kill a nice idea early is one of the most commercially useful habits I own. This is where it started, and I have used it on every venture since: measure first, decide second, and never let the pitch get ahead of the data.

Status — Academic experiment, 2012–2016.

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