This semester, BPI has organized a group independent study project to design and build energy-generating weight-training equipment. The project, which consists of 15 Brown students and a mechanical engineer from Toronto, is another step in the larger effort to harness the mechanical energy that gym-goers produce into electrical output, all while maintaining the same functionality or even improving it for the user. We are working with our advisor, Professor of Engineering Chris Bull, to get acquainted with currently available technology and what might suit our system best.
Having decided on the type of system we will pursue for the energy translation, we are currently in the design phase and are awaiting funding and materials to begin building thereafter. For more about our project, check out bpi.betterxdesign.org, our page in the Better x Design organization's projects section.
