“Health is the most valuable treasure one can have”, “Exercise is a must for a long happy living” etc. etc. ..We come across such cases every now and then while browsing through the internet. These slogans are pretty effective too, we have got a number of new machinery that turns a beautiful room into a manly fitness centers. Keeping pace with the crowd, the geek also finds his way to these machines: either by making them or by hacking them. Well, this post details with a hacking mode where a cardiovascular machine gets to become a power generator. This means that whenever some uses the machine, you get power: store it, use it, whatever.

This hack has been done by Quinn Dunki, amazing girl hacker who not only gets this hack reversible but also takes care of the environment: something which gets ignored in hacking process. A non-destructive process, this hack gets detailed through some well explained images.

You will find the real hack images, image of the circuit used and the PCB design process in Quinn’s blog post about this power generation. 

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