DIY

Our 6th Solar Power My Project Winner built a home lawn irrigation system controlled by an Arduino inside the house. TJ Hunter is using our 2 Watt Panel and our V15 Battery in Always On mode to power the lawn...

If you are looking to charge devices or a Voltaic battery from a solar panel positioned far away from your device, you need to think about the gauge (thickness) of the wire you use to transfer the power. 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...

We don't have this problem in the city, but given the number of entries on this topic, we realized that it was an issue for many of you. Our fifth winner of our Solar Power My Project Contest is going to mod...

UPDATE: The standard Lenovo adapter is now included with any purchase of a V88 Laptop Battery Pack or any of our solar laptop chargers. -----Of course, if you want to hack your own, here's how to do...

If you're going to be swimming for 2-4 miles in New England ocean during the winter, you want to know the water conditions before you leave home. Damon Bosetti, a member of the Nahant Knuckleheads is building...

Our third Solar Power My Project Contest winner from Whistler, BC has "a mesh network of XBee/Arduino nodes that report battery voltage of their respective solar power systems. Of the 20 nodes, 2 are currently...

Our second winner of our "Solar Power My Project" Contest combines three of our loves: solar, bicycles, and espresso. Brian Del Vecchio and other friends of Alessandro are going to upgrade his custom...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We left the house a bit earlier than usual today to support NYC's Bike to Work Day in our own solar-powered way. We decked out our usual commuter bicycle with 60+ Watts of portable solar panels, 180 Watt hours...

20 students at UW-Madison recently built a solar charger as part of IEEE Student Projects.  The goal of the program is to provide students hands-on experience with practical design skills as many of the...