Salted Chip Cyclone Matt Fasano Greg Mulkey Victor Smith Leslie Roberts

The Team Victor Smith Greg MulkeyMatt FasanoLeslie Roberts

How We Made It Pringles Can 3 Compact Disk 2 Wine Corks Copper Wire Plastic Bobbins 8 Magnets Paper Towel Holder 2 Nails

Mechanical Components Spinning Pringles Can Spinning Magnets Rotating Nails Stationary Paper Towel Holder Connecting CD for Copper Coils Linkage of Multiple Coils

Electrical Components Magnets of Alternating Poles Spin Pass Over Multiple Coils Alternating Magnet Poles Creates Alternating Current

Testing Challenges Collecting Materials Wire Size Magnet Pull and Gluing Wiring Structure Wobble

Efficiency Calculations Wind Initial – 41 m/s 1/2mv^2 Theoretical J/s Wind Area – 200 mL Actual J/s Efficiency – 4.3%

Saving The Energy Crisis One Pringles Can At A Time You can’t exactly save the energy crisis with a Pringles can, but it is a cool idea.