Solar Energy Transformation – Solar Battery Pack
This would be an ambitious idea to execute for me as within the allotted time I would have to learn many new skills and techniques regarding how to use solar panels and how to use electrical circuits to connect and piece together the battery pack.
Some pros of this idea is how it contributes to a good cause – learning how to use and how sustainable energy functions. It also might have a better purpose as battery packs can be really useful for the many technology products we use today.
As for energy transfer, the battery pack would harness solar (light & heat) energy and transform it into electrical energy.
Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy Transformation – Newton’s Cradle
The Newton’s Cradle is known for how it demonstrates the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy with its swinging spheres. It should also be a good idea for this project as it transforms potential energy (when it starts) to kinetic energy (when the ball maintains the swinging movement).
Some pros of this idea is how it should be simpler compared to other alternative as tutorials online are available and the practical part of this idea is pure hands-on without needing much new technical skills to be learned. It will for sure not function as the original toy since the swinging motion takes away energy from the mechanism but it should definitely look quite good and interesting.
Wind energy transformation – Wind Turbine/Windmill
This would also be an interesting idea for this project, as it also focuses on one of the sustainable energy sources: energy from the wind. There are also many tutorials online on how to construct and make a functional windmill, but it would also require certain skills of understanding and skillsets of using circuits, which would definitely be quite hard within the given time allotment.
Some pros of this idea is also that it serves a good cause of using sustainable energy sources. The design and final product would also look fairly cool and should be adequate prototype to something that could be very useful in generating sustainable energy at a much larger size.
As for energy transfer, the windmill would use the kinetic energy from the air (wind) and transform it into electrical energy.