Inspired by the theme of climate change, this piece explores ideas of personal, mobile power generation and kinetics.

Dandelion is a wearable that captures energy from wind and human movement. It is a structure of miniature windmills that embraces the wearer. It is fashion that creates an interface between nature, technology, and people.

When walking or standing outside on a windy day, the windmills turn. Small individual power generating circuits transfer the rotational energy into usable voltage. In this prototype, the power generated turns on white LEDs, but the energy could be used to power mobile devices or stored for later use.

The windmill circuit consists of a dc motor + joule thief + white LEDs

Additionally, Dandelion was made with 99% salvaged materials.