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A project log for The VentolONE challenge: beyond!

The VentolONE project aims to build a small and simple vertical axis wind turbine, made from scratch, for Developing Countries

mariomilanesiomario.milanesio 05/30/2016 at 00:340 Comments

First Log. Here we are with Hackaday Prize! But...there's a long story before!

The VentolONE Challenge goes on from the experience of the VentolONE team, dissolved during early 2015 because of unpleasant disagreements subsequent a failed startup aiming to produce wind turbines.

The VentolONE Challenge aims to go beyond that experience, remembering positive and negative aspects of the previous one. I learned some things:

- success, even if small and relative, calls lots of social climbers

- I'm not an entrepreneurs, neither other members

- everywhere you can hear about 3D printing, renewable energies, sharing economy because this is trendy: sometimes who is speaking doesn't know what is talking about, but he talks...in a nice way

- with simplicity and awareness of our limits we want to build or, better, complete something useful for someone else, just like a simple wind turbine with a generator, and we like to share this with other people.

The group is now made by two members, engineers, technicians and high school teachers, with a lot of curiosity and a good dose of resourcefulness and imagination. Everyone of us has specific skills, too: we collected many experiences during early years to share with all the people around us or following official blog.

Group's motto: make it renewable, spread your knowledge, do it together!

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