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Waterproof Solar Laptop Charger
The fabric on our Generator is waterproof but water can still seep in through the seams in really wet weather. If you are in an extreme wet environment, you need a drier solution. The panel is...
Wireless Monitoring of a PV Solar Panel
Small PV solar panels are ideal for outdoor embedded hardware applications. The panels are inexpensive and using them prevents the need for extension cords. You can monitor the panel and battery pack to...
Custom Solar Bike Panniers
Sometimes our customers want all the solar charging functionality of our bags but in a different form. Benjamin Morrison, an avid cyclist, wanted to solar-ize his panniers and produced one of the nicer...
Solar-Powered Automated Garden
Update - We have a new class of "Always-On" batteries for use in projects like this. Also, see our new solar charger kit pages. I created an automated gardening system called Garduino to monitor soil...
Mobile Hotspot Redux
Several years ago, Popular Science wrote an article about creating your own mobile hotspot with a Voltaic Backpack. A lot has changed since then. We tested the very small $150 Cradlepoint CTR350 Mobile...
Charge Car Batteries with a Voltaic 15 Watt panel
Note: This project was performed with an earlier version of the Voltaic solar panel. Voltaic's newer 16 Watt panel works for this application - the only difference is that the output plug from the current...
Build your own MacBook MagSafe1/MagSafe2 adapter
UPDATE: We now sell MagSafe2's! Feel free to skip all these hacking steps and purchase one for your laptop today. Be sure to also check out the rest of our MacBook solar charger products here. If you...









