1. A New WAVE of ENERGY Jasmine Yoshimoto Mentor: Ned Davis Maui Akamai Internship Program Internship site: Trex Enterprises August 4, 2009 1

2. Agenda Introduction to Wave Energy My Project  Active Retract Mechanism Future Impact Conclusion 2

3. Introduction What is Wave Energy? How can we harvest this energy?  Various Devices Exist How does it work? 3

4. Wave Energy Harvesting Device http://www.swellgen.com/drupal62/sites/www.swellgen.com/files/harvester_470.jpg 4

5. Wave Energy Harvesting Device 5

6. Problems Spring  Reliability  No one size fits all solution Control based on wave 6

7. My Project Active Retract Mechanism  Device: electronic  Components  Key Features: “Smart” Microcontroller 7

8. Design Picture 8

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10. Testing Prototype wave machine Replicate wave Alter programming 10

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12. 12 Testing

13. setbacks Delivery time Measurements New Programming Language 13

14. Results Senses “wave” Analyze characteristics Retract 14

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16. Impact in the Future Increase Efficiency Energy of the future! 16

17. Conclusion Wave Energy Active Retract Mechanism Future Impact 17

18. Future Direction Better Programming Self Powering

19. Acknowledgements Mentor: Ned Davis Help from: Laurie Tamura, Wes Ueoka Others: Co-workers 19

20. Acknowledgements Akamai Internship Program  Lisa Hunter  Lani Lebron  Nina Arnberg  Mike Nassir The 2009 Maui Akamai Internship Program is funded by the University of Hawaii, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the National Science Foundation Center for Adaptive Optics (NSF #AST - 9876783). 20 Short Course Instructors  Dave Harrington  Mark Pitts  Mike Foley

21. Thank You! Questions? 21