Monthly Archives: September 2010
Phones that Charge Directly from Solar
We typically recommend our customers charge their phones from our USB battery. It outputs a consistent 5.5V, 650mA and will charge nearly every phone and handheld device and is available anytime. Some, but not all, phones’ charging circuitry is a …
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Small Scale Sensor Platform, Powered by Solar
We met Joel Murphy of Rachel’s electronics at Maker Faire New York and liked his use of a tiny solar cell to power a sensor and robotics platform called the Solarduino (Beta). We think remote sensors are going to explode …
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Blackberry Playbook Charger
The Blackberry Playbook was launched yesterday and we’ve had a look at it battery specs and made some charging estimates. The Playbook has the distinction of being the first Tablet with a Micro USB adapter. These are the default adapter …
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Charging a Samsung GALAXY Tablet
The iPad competitors seem to be arriving now. On the new Samsung GALAXY, it appears that it will also charge from USB as the car charger on the accessories tab connects to a USB charging cable. If anyone has any …
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Amp – 4X as much Power as Other Standalone Chargers
The Amp Solar Charger is one of our new standalone chargers. We are excited because it has about the 4 times as much solar power and twice the battery power as other solar chargers on the market and 8 times …
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Location Based Services for Sharing
We’ve seen a lot of location based services form up around social media, but none of them seemed quite right for Voltaic. Thats until we found SnapGoods, located in our same office space in Brooklyn. They facilitate the lending and …
Rent my solar backpack
DIY Solar Bags – It is Getting Easier
Our new 2 Watt solar panels have small, embedded screws in each of the four corners and four super-light and low-profile plastic nuts. These allow you to attach them securely to your own fabric. One of our long time customers …
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Voltaic at New York Maker Faire
On September 25th and 26th, we’ll be attending the New York Maker Faire at the Science Hall in Queens. Come by and say hi and we’ll show you our solar panels, USB battery packs, and all sorts of useful parts …
Attend Maker Faire New York
Solar Bags Used for Dolphin Research
The team over at SpeakDolphin study dolphin communication. They use the Messenger Bag to keep their Sound Devices 722 hard disk recorder powered up during research sessions and to charge their Droid X.
Virgin MiFi – We’re Switching
We’ve talked a number of times about powering wireless networking and it seems like Virgin Mobile’s new MiFi will change what we use internally. All of us at Voltaic pass around a Sprint Wireless USB stick so that we can …
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