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DIY Solar Powered Water Quality Sensor Every now and then while scrolling through tech blogs and DIY sensor projects, the Voltaic team is pleasantly surprised to see our solar panels highlighted as the main...

Our friends across the river in Manhattan at Adafruit have made a new video explaining how solar power works, and used our products to demonstrate! If you've ever been curious how solar panels generate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Another day, another proprietary charging cable. The new Vaio Flip 13 and Tap 11 cables look like this: Since there are no third party adapters for this plug yet, a customer of ours figured out an...

We are getting a large number of requests for our solar chargers for individuals going to the Phillipines to help in response to Typhoon Haiyan and are providing a 30% discount (and more in some cases) to all...

Update: We now have a complete lineup of folding solar panels. A friend of Voltaic asked us to build him an 18 Watt solar charger kit to keep his V72 laptop battery charged up in the field. We took the...

There's a dramatic shift underway in the manufacturing of prosthesis. 3-D printing is slowly chipping away at restrictive barriers like money that have prevented thousands of people from taking advantage of...

Our July Gear winner, Andrew Brose, works for MASS Design Group and, in partnership with the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), is helping to build a six classroom school for 250 students in the Equateur...

When a longtime customer of Voltaic asked us to help keep him powered up on the 250km Gobi Desert Ultra Marathon, we said "of course!" He mounted our portable solar panel on the top of his backpack and used it...

Dave from Seattle sent us in this pics from a recent trip to Sedona. His crew brought the Fuse 4W Solar Charger and the 3.4 Watt Kit while mountain biking the red rock to keep their iPhones charged for GPS...

We really enjoyed working with LifeEdited to provide backup solar power for their compact New York apartment. So when Graham Hill (the Founder) asked us to help with a more ambitious project, to provide off...

Vancouver photographer Amish Solanki recently returned from a trekking through East Africa and sent us lovely photos of our Fuse 4W Solar Charger in action. In addition to keeping his Canon 5D MarkII charged,...