Timelapse with GoPro Camera
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...
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10 Watt Kit in Indian Himalayas
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...
3.4 Watt Kit in Desert Race
When a longtime customer of Voltaic asked us to help keep him powered up on the 250km Gobi Desert Ultra Marathon, we said "of course!" He mounted our...
Voltaic Backpacks sent to Filipino Schoolchildren
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...
May Gear Winner Helps Build New Nursery School in Nepal
Justin Wickham, Co-Founder of Learning Planet and a former BBC Television News & Current Affairs Documentary Producer is building a new...
Analysis of CitiBike's Solar Pole
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...
Fuse 4W Review by Bicycle Touring Pro
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...
Buy One Give One for Malawi
We’re partnering with Empower (a recent Rockefeller Foundation Innovator finalist) for an exciting new Buy One Give One program. For every solar...
Mapping a 100 mile x 100 mile Solar Farm
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...
Portable Charging Station Design
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...
Portable Solar Charging for Bike to Work Day
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...
UW-Madison Solar Powered Student Projects
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...
April Gear Winner Heads to the Altai Mountains
Arita Baaijens, a Dutch biologist, longtime explorer, writer and photographer will doing an expedition to the Altai Mountains from this June to...
Solar Charger for Mountain Biking Trip
Dave from Seattle sent us in this pics from a recent trip to Sedona. His crew brought the Fuse 4W Solar Charger and the 3.4 Watt Kit while mountain...
Ditch our AC Charger
If you don't think it makes sense to carry an AC charger for your laptop and for our V60 Universal Laptop Battery included with our solar laptop...
Solar Charger on a Vespa
A customer recently drove his Vespa from Tangier, Morocco to Dakar, Senegal - 4000km in 16 days. He used our Fuse 4W Solar Charger to keep his GoPro...
Best Tablet for Off Grid Travel
We get asked a lot about which tablets we recommend. Without wading into the Android vs Apple melee, we wanted to offer our opinion from a solar...
Off-Grid Cabin in Hawaii
We really enjoyed working with LifeEdited to provide backup solar power for their compact New York apartment. So when Graham Hill (the Founder) asked...