Living off-the-grid in our modern-day society has never been easier. Our friend Tafline Layine from Inhabitat , recently used two of our 17 Watt Kits to make her car an off-grid space for living and...
Power your Arduino Spark Core Weather Station from Solar This project is in response to a number of customers who've asked us about using solar to power their IOT sensing projects and then publish their...
This past July, Francois-Xavier De Ruydts and his documentary crew helped narrate the journey of Arthur, a 21 year-old paraplegic, who's dream was to cross the Brooks Mountain Range in Northern...
Nick Korda, one of the team at Green Guru Gear, modified our USB Touchlight to attach to his steer tube. The mount fit perfectly right under the headset cap. The light is fed by a V15 battery stored in...
Whenever we want to send our gear on a tough field test, we always send it to Daniel Fox. He recently used our 17 Watt Solar Charger Kit with our waterproof case. As you can see, the panel mounts nicely on the...
We met industrial designer Ryan Hetzel at this year's Outdoor Retailer and talked about the possibilities of a solar-powered tank bag. Touring motorcycles are starting to have power outputs, but many bikes...
Voltaic customer Witold Wnuk recently created a Windows app to optimize panel angle. Rotate your phone along all three axes until a circle appears which you guide to the center of the screen. You should then...
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 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...
Let's get right to it. In November we decided to use solar power to monitor a new condo development across the street from our office. Some of us wanted to see what goes into building condos that are about a...
Voltaic Systems' products have been used for a myriad of applications over the years and now we can add to the list, powering up a portable Wi-fi network, that in turn is used to capture and stream video for...
Brain Do, our June Gear winner is heading to Vietnam on a humanitarian trip. He is member of the Vietnam Health Clinic (VHC), an organization at the University of Washington. VHC is a non-profit,...
Justin Wickham, Co-Founder of Learning Planet and a former BBC Television News & Current Affairs Documentary Producer is building a new nursery school in the remote hamlet of Balimtar, Dhawa, Nepal....
Arita Baaijens, a Dutch biologist, longtime explorer, writer and photographer will doing an expedition to the Altai Mountains from this June to October. The Altai Mountains are divided by the borders of 4...
The Creative Team from Barnstorm Cinema, which includes Joe Lotuaco and DaCoda Bartels, will be heading to Colonet, Baja California, Mexico to to film a week long paramotor/paragliding adventure. Filming...
Our November Gear Winner, Peter Csonka, returned from his 1 month trip filming and kayaking in Uganda White Nile and sent us some photos of his Spark Solar iPad Charger catching some rays. From past years...
