Make Magazine (motto: technology on your time) is a technology-hacking magazine dedicated to folk interested in using inexpensive technology in unintended ways, or remanufacturing technology to suit their personal whims. Typically this involves making clever robots, barbeques, model rocket telemetry, autopilots for RC planes, and many electronics projects. The project featured here under the first link describes how to make a Faraday generator to replace batteries for a TV remote control using a plastic tube wrapped in magnet wire containing a Nd magnet that is shaken by hand. I buy my Nd magnets in bulk from Master Magnetics http://www.mastermagnetics.com.
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