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We've selected our first winner in our Solar Power Your Project Contest. Logan is building an automated garden powered by an Arduino. The system is designed to sense water level moisture. When water level...

We've had a number of customers looking to add a battery to their Sunlinq solar panels made by Global Solar. To help out, we created a brief guide showing which of our batteries are compatible with each...

Photographer Robert Zamora has been using our Array Solar Laptop charger to charge his Nikon D800 (EN-EL15 battery) and MacBook. He says, "All of these photos are what I call 'solar end to end' meaning...

Writer Paul Salopek is on a seven year walk "starting at humankind’s birthplace in Ethiopia and ending at the southern tip of South America, where our forebears ran out of horizon." He is using PowerFilm...

To celebrate the launch of our new 6 Watt solar panel, we are announcing a new contest. We are giving away five 6 Watt kits to DIY-ers looking to take their Arduino, remote sensor or any technical project off...

On September 18th, "ten young adults and a videographer will paddle the Mississippi River from Itasca, MN to New Orleans, LA to create a video documentary about watershed communities and their relationship to...

From producer Holly Morris, "The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone or 'Dead Zone' is the official 30 km. area that surrounds Reactor No. 4, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident - and a zone that is officially...

Ben Schapiro, a Chicago-land customer, took our 16 Watt solar panel and a classic tackle box and made a pretty cool and versatile solar charger. The solar panel charges a deep-cycle lead acid battery plus our...

A customer just returned from Nepal and sent in these pictures of his Fuse 4W Solar Charger. These are from near Island Peak and the Khumbu Valley....

Two customers recently took our 7 Watt Solar Charger Kit (we recommend our 9 Watt Kit as an updated alternative) on a hiking tour across Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland. They used the kit to charge their...

We've been working with a company called Cam-Do on how to power a GoPro camera for extended timelapse photography projects where battery life is a limiting factor. Our setup is now being used out on Jamaica...

A customer sent in pictures of his new laptop solar charger kit in use in the Indian Himalayas. He's using 3 of our 3 Watt solar panels to charge our V60 Laptop Battery and V15 USB Battery. Here's the...

What do you do when a large number of backpacks from your supplier arrive in the US with slight cosmetic defects? Thanks to the effort of a master assembler in our warehouse team, they ended up in good...

Almost everyone in New York City has weighed in on the new bike sharing program. Two of us here are members and, overall, we are big fans. There are a lot of discussions about the stations, the bikes, and the...

Darren Alff is the man behind the Bicycle Touring Pro blog and also spends a large part of the year riding around the world on his bicycle. That's why we were pretty excited when he did a review of our Fuse 4W...

We’re partnering with Empower (a recent Rockefeller Foundation Innovator finalist) for an exciting new Buy One Give One program. For every solar power and light kit featuring our new USB Touchlight...

Joseph DeLappe is starting a 460 mile bicycle ride through Nevada today. He'll be dragging home-made chalk behind him to draw a line around Nellis Air Force Base. This will create a 100 mile x 100 mile "area...

Mount over 60 Watts of solar panels on the back of a circa-1987 Dave Scott Centurion bicycle and you get a pretty powerful phone, tablet and even laptop charging system. We built this in celebration of NYC's...