Monthly Archives: June 2009

Wireless Monitoring of a PV Solar Panel

Small PV solar panels are ideal for outdoor embedded hardware applications. The panels are inexpensive and using them prevents the need for extension cords. You can monitor the panel and battery pack to make sure you are producing adequate electricity. …

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Custom Solar Bike Panniers

Sometimes our customers want all the solar charging functionality of our bags but in a different form. Benjamin Morrison, an avid cyclist, wanted to solar-ize his panniers and produced one of the nicer mods we have seen. These are his …

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Solar-Powered Automated Garden

I created an automated gardening system called Garduino to monitor soil moisture and automatically water plants, provide supplemental sunlight and warn me when soil temperature drops below 50 degrees Farenheit. Using, Voltaic’s solar panels and battery pack, you can make …

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Solar Charge Sony HD Cameras on Kilimanjaro

Location: Mt. Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa Charges: Sony HD Cameras “We were a group of 26 climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain on the African continent. Wanting to document our trip, we borrowed some Sony High Definition Video cameras. …

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