This project was done for a client to use as a sales tool to demonstrate the concept at hand. This was a collaboration with a group of mechanical engineers, electronic engineers and more. 

For this project, we:

Fabricated the city component—buildings, ground base, electronics and lights required for that piece

Created and vinyl-wrapped exterior panels

Graphics, Logo, treatments and decals

windows and acrylic pieces

Oh Yeah... This whole model was created from scratch in 10 weeks.

This project resulted in the creation of a device that was intended to demonstrate an alternative energy source developed.

By and large, there aren't any truly cost-effective solution to the renewable energy quest the planet has embarked on. Solar, wind, tidal, hydro-electric, geothermal and nuclear systems are heavily subsidized and/or require more maintenance than the money they generate via power. They impact the environment in various ways—some being less harmful than others—but the truth is that there aren't any good clean profitable methods of harvetsting energy.

This is where the Piezo Electric Carpet comes in. This device would be placed on inclined ramps at truck stops across the world to harness the effect of a rolling truck via gravity to turn downward force on a series of paddles into radial motion on a flywheel. Once spinning, the flywheel would employ magnetic force to "tickle" piezoelectric reeds as well as a generator to turn radial energy into electricity. The Arrangment of the magnets and reeds produces very little resistance, and the flywheel system can produce a charge for several minutes after a truck has rolled over the plate.

This not only produces amazing amounts of energy from an action that happens every day, but by placing them on the inclined ramps at truck stop, trucks are provided resistance that would require truckers to brake less. This results in less brake wear, which is not a negligible concern for truck drivers.

Patents Pending.