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Salt Lake City photographer Christine Armbruster knows how to travel. After spending the first half of the summery in Alaska, she recently hiked the 100 mile West Highland Way in Northern Scotland. She...

DIY: Solar Powered Flood Monitoring Systems A team at Chile's National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management (CIGIDEN) has built a solar powered IoT system to monitor temperature and...

A recent return from service in Guinea sent us this picture of her Fuse 10W Solar Charger. She said, "I don't think I could have survived in Guinea without being able to communicate with my family back...

We are happy to provide solar panels for the students who go through Blue Stamp Engineering's summer program. Students get to choose what to make and then post the results. Perhaps not surprisingly, solar...

We hacked a smartphone dry bag to make it a solar dry bag. In this example, we use a 6 Watt Kit, 4 foot extension cable and dry bag (try searching for  "dry audio case") to make a waterproof solar...

Photographer Karim Iliya was in Iceland for a month on assignment and brought our Array Solar Laptop Charger along to keep his equipment, most importantly the Canon 5D Mark 3, charged. The "backpack basically...

Guest judge Darren Alff of Bicycle Touring Pro selected this month's winner, Christine Gilbert. The bicycle touring route from France to the Black Sea is relatively straightforward, but throw in 2 kids aged 1...

Ian Downard recently built a solar powered chicken coop door to make it easier to give his chickens time to be in the yard. The system is powered by our 3.4 Watt solar panel and V15 battery in Always...

Charles Chandler is bicycle touring 12,300 miles around America in support of Climate Change Action. Previously, you could follow his ride on his blog, greenrider.org. Here is the 16 Watt Solar Charger Kit...

New Hampshire photographer Joe Klementovich recently borrowed our GoPro time lapse setup for a stint on Tuckerman's ravine. Here is a week of footage in temps ranging from -17 to 27 degrees. Look closely and...

How Our Take Back Program Works: Each of our solar backpacks and solar chargers contain valuable components that can be useful for a long period of time. If the components for some reason do fail, they...

The Marantz PMD661 is one of the sound recorders of choice for professional ornithologists. However, the battery life using AAs is limited to about four hours, which isn't enough for some applications. The...

We are definitely partial here at Voltaic to a great biking adventure, well we actually love all exciting endeavors! Our February gear winner, Rian Cope, is part of a 3-man team with Nam Youngho and Jason...

We've just heard from Matt Young, a Peace Corps volunteer that is 10 months into his placement in the central African nation of Zambia. With his Spark Solar Tablet Case always by his side, Matt is working to...

Our friends at PlayWell Tek are offering more summer programs for young engineers and this year, one of the projects includes a solar powered lego tank. The tank uses our 2 Watt Solar panel and we think it is...

From December 15th to January 15th while we were complaining about the cold and snow up here in New York, the Climber Science team was making their way across Costa Rica by kayak, mountain bike and their own...

We're heading out to Mt. Washington for a backcountry ski trip and bringing along lots of USB devices to make our trip more fun. To understand the power needs for our solar chargers, we created a summary of...

The Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya contacted us about providing a way to power their laptop in the field, it was hard to say no. The conservancy is home to 4 of the last 7 remaining Northern White Rhinos in...