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Hugh Piggott
Personal blog · scoraigwind.co.ukhardwarescience
Hugh Piggott's personal blog at scoraigwind.co.uk covers hardware and science. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hugh Piggott's site for his DIY wind turbine books and build guides, which commenters describe as long-popular, pre-internet recipe books. One commenter calls him a major figure in DIY wind turbines.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> " I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. " How close would a hand-crank mechanism be to driving an e-ink tablet for a useful amount of time? A quick look at a clockwork crank-wind-up torch shows it has 300mAh battery and 30hrs of blinking SOS LED on a full charge, and they claim 1min of winding gives it 2hrs of blinking LED, so roughly 20mAh per minute of winding. How much comput…
Comment linking /2010/07/treadle-powered-computer/
on “CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet”That article includes a comment from resident Hugh Piggott, somewhat of a rockstar in the DIY wind turbine world. http://scoraigwind.co.uk/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “A remote UK community living off-grid”For anyone interested in actually building this def check out the facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/windturbinemakers/ Hugh Piggot [1] is pretty active in the goup and he is an OG in the DIY wind turbing game. Def worth checking out his book as well [2] For anyone who is interested in a deeper dive into wind turbines the Wind Energy Handbook [3] is worth your time. Also Daniel who built this also built…
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on “$30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (2017)”See also Hugh Piggott's detailed recipe books for building wind turbines, e.g. https://scoraigwind.co.uk/all-of-the-books-by-hugh-how-to-ge... . They were originally printed paper books because they pre-date the internet, and have been popular, e.g. in Scottish island communities, for a long time.
Comment linking /all-of-the-books-by-hugh-how-to-get-them/
on “Open Source Low Tech”