Hamster powered LED nightlight

I'm surprised no one has posted this one yet..

The project/webpage is titled "Hamster-Powered Night Light
With Custom Low-RPM Alternator", where they use 2-6 LEDs and a hamster as a convenient light which requires no batteries to work.

Full details here: http://www.otherpower.com/hamster.html

I wonder how many hamsters I need to EDC to power a ROP? LOL! nice experiment

AlexGT

The overall costs of maintaining a rodent as a pet is more than the costs of AA batteries (assuming about 20¢ each for the batteries in a Costco 48 pack.)

Especially the clean up costs...

make the little bugger earn his keep.

soon every home will have one, connected to the national grid.:lolsign:

This is such a stupid idea, I can't belive anyone would do it.

Everyone knows ferrets are twice as efficent as hampsters.................they are the red/orange low Vf items of the rodent world :naughty:

Josh

How cute! How many lumens per kibble? :huh:

I have owned a few ferrets and you would not want to sleep next to one, they have a scent gland and they stink.:eeew:

regards.

Can you imagine a police officer on the beat walking down a long dark alleyway carrying a translucent multi-colored hamster cage with an LED array mounted on the front as his EDC? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

It sounds like somthing from the flintstones.

regards.

PhotonWrangler said:

How cute! How many lumens per kibble? :huh:

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That was great. So maybe 300 or 400 hampsters to power The Beast?

One post has been deleted. Topics about animals is not a solicitation for joking of, or suggesting, cruelty.

Hamsters are one of my favorite pets. Did you know pet hamsters come originally from a very small population in Syria?

:thinking: I'm wondering if hamsters could be trained to light up the LED when they're hungry or in response to some need/stimulus.

HP (Hamster Power) ratings will never be the same. My 600HP Mustang kicks butt at the track. Just don't mind the wood shavings falling out the rear.

So what's the runtime? LOL!

AlexGT

greenLED said:

Hamsters are one of my favorite pets. Did you know pet hamsters come originally from a very small population in Syria?

:thinking: I'm wondering if hamsters could be trained to light up the LED when they're hungry or in response to some need/stimulus.

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Animals respond well to food. Dogs start behaving like pigs (greedy as all heck) the moment food comes out, this is a known phenomenon

Even my friend's fish learned to interpret the front door opening as "people are home, FEED ME" and it would swim to the side of the tank and make bubbling noises. It was quite surprising for a visitor like me until he told me that the fish is normal, it wants 1. attention 2. food 3. preferably both when it does that.

If you feed your hamsters regularly whenever you see them on the wheel, you could eventually condition them to get on the wheel and light the LED in exchange for food. It would make them fat, perhaps, but the good news is at least they're burning it off on the treadmill!