3D Wireless Power Delivery

I have a tiny desk tank next to my setup, having the pump and light be wireless would look amazing

Hi Matt,

I really enjoyed your recent video on 3D wireless power — it was fascinating. It sparked an idea that might be worth exploring with ETI: developing a wireless charging car park system, where each parking space includes a wireless power transmitter and vehicles are fitted with a receiver underneath.

This concept could also be extended to electric scooters and bikes — particularly the shared ones you see on city streets in places like London (e.g. Lime, Tier, Voi). Embedding wireless charging pads in designated docking areas or parking bays could solve some of the logistical challenges around charging these fleets efficiently and at scale.

Would be great to hear your thoughts on this.

It would be nice to integrate existing tech such as an alexa suport that allows you to simply drop in an alexa dot, and it just works.

The base power it's a bit of a compromise, since if you don't use your computer 24/7 there's a lot of energy being "wasted" to power the magnetic field around the desk.

@aalzuhair the problem with this concept would be efficiency, which is a problem not discussed in the video. Wireless power systems can, in the very best of circumstances (meaning the coils practically touch with no interfering materials in between) reach an efficiency of 80-90%. Since these circumstances are rarely obtainable the practical efficiency would be a lot less. For a pc setup using a couple of watts, this is not a major concern. When you are trying to pump several kwh into a car the losses start to add up.

Hi Matt. This is an amazing project and I enjoyed it. Thanks a lot. I'd imagine having this installed on a wall. Smart picture frames, wall clocks and other LED lights designs. 

A major concern would be the efficiency of the system. Have you had time to calculate it efficiency?

Hi Matt, 

Is it possible to get a components list for the parts to make these speakers? And links if possible? 

Thanks again! Love your videos 

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Building a TRULY wire-free setup (wireless power delivery)

 

 

Here are the files for all the items:

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basically a little robot wich can drive around with a little lcd screen and tells you the time or can turn on stuff like rgb strips so like an elgato stream deck

@jinx @diyperks yes please tell us, which components are used. I was only able to identify bluetooth module: AudioB Plus Bluetooth Audio Receiver Module(Apt-X) but still need amplifier and driver itself. Thanks in advance.

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Building a TRULY wire-free setup (wireless power delivery)

 

 

Here are the files for all the items:

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Please add one of those qi chargers that you can mount into a desk then you would have everything you need.

Any specific use case is going to limit the potential of this tech. That being said, a laptop GPU getting boosted while on a desk sounds cool

Love how thoughtful the application of existing tech can really be - amazing stuff.

Apart from the natural efficiency concerns, I was also wondering about the orientation of the coils themselves - I'm assuming they need to be non-perpendicular to some degree, which makes me think about how the orientation of a peripheral could affect power delivery. I pick up my mouse from time to time, so would that result in an interruption? perhaps a capacitor bank on the coil boards themselves would help smooth out any disturbances.

Another idea - could we 'index' multiple zones on a desk, like how TVs have zone lighting? Maybe a grid arrangement where power can be selectively transferred into a single cell (like a chess board square) or set of cells, each with their own coils, rather than a massive coil around the entire table? That could make power delivery more granular and overall requirements would be less. Plus you can actually save power by turning off, say, the peripherals only, rather than something that would need to be running for longer.

Sooo many thoughts and ideas pop into my head after every DIY perks video!

Is it possible to build a Stream Deck Mini? The main challenge would be managing the USB data and internal connections.

@auburn-t In theory, that can be done. USB over TCP/IP has been done (even over WANs although that's a security risk of quite epic proportions). The Stream Decks aren't that complicated - mostly it's a display and some switches that activate (I imagine) a resistive touch screen. I've had something similar in the works for a while but my focus has been on other things...

It would be neat if some links for all the things used could be provided. Like the little microphone and amplifier. And if not links maybe just names so we could find them ourselves.

Hi Matt, love your videos.

Would it be possible to make a floating monitor using magnets and have the monitor powered wirelessly plust have all the peripherals transmitted through Bluetooth?

That would be awesome to see. You could just grab the monitor and go lol 

@aalzuhair 

thats a cool idea or even like wireless dekstops tvs or other things

Hey Matt, great video. Would you recommend these speakers versus the previous Bluetooth variants using earbuds? Genuinely curious which you think sound better overall.

@ansah-prosper https://www.etherdyne.net/
It is in the youtube description.

What is the power usage when no devices is pulling wireless power?

And is thera any datasheet from https://www.etherdyne.net/

@diyperks please tell us the component list and the name of the mic used, for that mic build, it would be a great help! 

@wizard_pope +1, Would love to try and build this - can't find the wireless power components though. Would be great if anyone could share the links or component names

@jinx I think ist is a High Frequency Generator an copper cabel, It works with Inductive Charging

The first thing that came to my mind was a soldering setup. I know its pretty tangential to the video idea, but the wireless power delivery enabling a station with good lighting would be very interesting.

I also like the idea of wireless fans for some reason. I doubt there is much in the way of effective use for them, but for some reason that just sounds incredibly interesting.

If the goal is to create a floating monitor to go along with this, given the instability and large liquid nitrogen requirements of Flux Pinning, there's clearly only one rational solution.

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Wirelessly powered Quadcopters, baybeeee! 😛

@jinx I think I found the speaker drivers, or at least some that come close to it: Tang Band W23-1287SI

How about powering a mini race track like this? 😁 No more bad power connections with the annoying rails, having the ability to take shortcuts etc.

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@diyperks please tell us the component list and the name of the mic used, for that mic build, it would be a great help! 

If you mean the Ultimate USB-C mic it's the JLI2555 (sometimes listed as the TSI2555).

@ansah-prosper from the YT video description: Big thanks to ETI for sending the wireless power sytem over for me to experiment with. If you want to design a product with one (even just a prototype) send them your ideas! https://www.etherdyne.net/evalkit