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We have been working for some time on our latest product, the USB Touchlight. This is a super bright, USB-powered LED light, designed to run from our solar batteries. When our good friends at Life...

We did a solar Lego car post a while back. It turns out the newer lego motors, the M-Motor 8883 and 8882 are a tiny bit more complicated than the older motors. They have a wire with 4 leads instead of 2. By...

This June, Stephanie Hill is heading to a small village in Uganda with 16 teenage girls. Once they reach Kitoola, they are going to help build a school and provide additional manual labor of whatever is needed...

Although some devices need a stable input and therefore require a battery in order to charge from solar, many charge just fine directly from a panel. We've noticed a growing number of smartphones falling into...

We're sending a Fuse 4W Solar Charger plus a Nikon D3100 (EN-EL14) charger to Stu in Melbourne, Australia. While not the most extreme in the traditional sense of some of our past winners, we thought the...

Corby Hicks, our friend over at Verdantly, recently completed an interesting energy-efficient home-improvement project - installing a solar-powered crawl space ventilation system. Even better, he detailed the...

Bart Zwiep, one of our customers from Holland, is headed to Kenya later this year for a charity bike trip organized by the Verkaart Development Team. The charity is intended to benefit orphaned girls from the...

We think these are two lovely shots of the Fuse 4W Solar Charger (the closeup is a reflection of the panel) during a hike in the Ausangate mountains of the High Andes in Peru. Thanks to Rafael for...

We recently came across the the Solar Stella, a project by John Wilson in which he upgrades his Stella Amp to run off of solar power. We were particularly interested because he uses a Voltaic...

In most cases, when people ask if we ship to XYZ country, we enthusiastically say, "yes". A few countries give us pause though. For this list, we're going to exclude the places we're not allowed to ship to by...

While working on the design for a future Voltaic product, I headed outside to get some preliminary real-world solar generation data (A perk of working in the solar industry is the ability to spend some time...

The good folks over at Home Power Magazine recently ran a story on solar chargers and they chose the Fuse 10W Solar Laptop Charger for the cover photo. Photo credit to Shawn Schreiner. Get the current issue...

Empower Projects is a Sydney-based non-profit that helps entrepreneurs to build self-reliant communities. Their founder, Shanil Samarakoon, brought a Voltaic Generator along with him on his site visits to...

A Peace Corps Volunteer brought a Voltaic Generator Solar Laptop Charger to Madagascar a few years ago and has been using it ever since to keep her electronics charged. We do provide discounts to Peace Corps...

Our October winner needs to charge a MacBook Pro 15", Nikon D90 and a Sony SDR-SR12 video camcorder while on a photography expedition. We hooked up Tzeitel Sorrosa with a Fuse 10W Solar Laptop charger plus a...

Chris Baker from One Seed Expeditions sent us back these great photos from their company training session in Nepal. We gave Chris a V60 laptop battery to go with his 15 Watt solar panel and charge his MacBook....

Update 10/29/2015 - we can now charge nearly every camera from USB. Go here for our updated tutorial, video and FAQ for our solar camera chargers. If you just want to watch the video, see...

EEWeb recently interviewed a few of us here at Voltaic. You can read the full interview here to learn more about what we're working on, what keeps us up at night and our favorite hardware tools. The picture...