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I was wondering if such a low power usage device could be charged from button presses, but dismissed the idea as whimsical... and then immediately found another project on the front page that does exactly that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35077859

>We extract energy from (...) button presses of a regular Game Boy, using mechanical off-the-shelf button press harvesters. (...) The energy from the buttons is rectified, boosted, and stored in small capacitors.



A few small solar panels would probably soak up enough ambient light. I had a calculator in high school that ran on solar. It still works. 35 years later.




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