Last class we played with our robots again, but this time it was a little different. We were given a shake flashlight to hook up to our robot, which would record the voltage produced when the flashlight was shaken. I thought it was a pretty interesting experiment.
Our first run we left the flashlight alone to record its “base line”, which is how much voltage it produces when it’s not moving. Our second run we shook it fairly slowly; we shook it 49 times. We gradually increased the speed/amount of shakes, which was supposed to increase the voltage produced. Our third run we shook it 74 times, and on our last run we shook it 110 times. Our results are shown below. As you can see from our data below, the more shakes the higher the voltage.
