Thread: Alternative Power Sources?
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Re: Alternative Power Sources?
Not really, but we have experimented with additional power sources. For this one project we had to put 99 Amp-hours of SLA batteries on there. Needless to say, it was quite a heavy robot.

A lemon powered robot would be cool though, you think there's enough juice (literally) to do it?

In chem lab, we made some small voltaic cells and got a whole volt out of a couple of them. While the voltage was fairly impressive, I'm sure they couldn't provide much current.
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