Hey, I’m Jackson

Please walk all over my project.

Ski racer, PC rebuilder, senior at Sugar Bowl Academy. This year’s side quest: figuring out where all the energy in your footsteps goes, and catching some of it.

See the floor tile

Scroll, I’ll wait

How does it work?

You step. The tile sinks. A motor spins. Out comes electricity.

Simple, right? Human kinetic energy harvesting, which is a fancy way of saying “getting power out of footsteps.” It all comes down to one idea: a floor tile that turns your footstep into electricity.

You step.

The tile sinks.

A motor spins.

Out comes electricity.

GL100 generator motors

~20

triangular floor tiles

8×5

feet, the pilot floor at Sugar Bowl

Patent-pending design

Poke around

Pick a rabbit hole.

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So how does a footstep make power?

A 3D model you can spin, zoom, and take apart, with every part explained in plain English.

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Taming the electricity

The motor’s output is a mess. Here’s how it gets cleaned up, stored, and used to heat the pathways outside.

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Yes, the lab is a closet

A 3D printer, scopes, and drawers of bearings, all in one very cozy closet.

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The serious version

A rather long research paper on human kinetic energy harvesting, if you need every detail.

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The Lab

Yes, the lab is a closet.

An emptied out closet workshop with a 3D printer, oscilloscope, soldering gun, and drawers full of clutch bearings and weights. It’s cozy. Come look around.

Peek in the closet

Side quest

Revast Labs

Buying used computer parts, rebuilding them into PCs, and selling them online. It’s called Revast Labs, and it’s a lot more serious than this site.

Go see Revast Labs