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Wind Seeded Random Number Generator

by cfishy
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True random number generation is hard, but nature can help! This project uses the unpredictability of wind to increase randomness.

How it works: the wind blows and spin the turbine, which spins magnets surrounding a Hall Effect sensor. The sensor's analog reading is then used to seed Arduino's random number generator.

In this project, I demonstrate how it works using an Arduino Leonardo with LCD shield to display both the sensor reading and the generated random numbers.

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