Combating Poaching with Solar Powered Cameras
Wildlife Protection Solutions uses technology to save endangered species and ecosystems. They have combined their wildlife conservation and...
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Remote Water Level Monitoring
Solar Powered Remote Water Level Monitoring Pacific Watershed Associates, based in Northwestern California, is an environmental and engineering firm...
Lithium Ion Charge Controller Performance
In this article we evaluate three popular lithium ion solar charge controllers, with and without MPPT, and compare their performance with a variety...
Charging Your Camera Battery from USB
How to Charge a Camera Battery from USB Charging a digital camera, even professional level DSLRs, when you're not near an outlet is surprisingly...
Low Cost Air Sensor Calibration and Evaluation
Deploying Low Cost Air Sensors As more and more low cost sensors appear, the reach and applications can be tantalizing. The question that crops up...
How to Charge a DJI Spark from an External Battery Pack
How to Charge a DJI Spark Offgrid The DJI Spark is DJI's smallest drone offering. If you are offgrid, there are two ways to charge a DJI Spark from...
How to Keep Camera Batteries Warm in Cold Weather
How To Keep Camera Batteries Warm Keeping camera batteries warm in cold weather will increase the number of photos you can take. We asked several of...
Solar Panel Tariffs Will Affect Small Solar Panels Too
The Trump Administration has imposed 30% tariffs on solar panels made outside of the United States. Those tariffs are targeting large modules for...
Monitoring Illegal Logging and Poaching with Solar
Rainforest Connection has been working to monitor and detect illegal deforestation and poaching. Their thesis is that if "you can protect the trees,...
From Recycled Plastic Bottles to Solar Backpacks
Here at Voltaic we understand the importance of taking environmental sustainability seriously. Throughout the life cycle of our products we do our...
Estimating Solar Charge Time for Batteries
How to Estimate Solar Charge Time Unfortunately, solar charge time is not as simple as just dividing your battery capacity (measured in Watt hours)...
Drifting Buoy Project – Powered by Solar
The Drifting Buoy Project currently has three buoys drifting in the North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific. The buoys measure surface...
Water Quality Sensor Launched in Brooklyn Navy Yard
We deployed our water quality sensor in a basin near the East River nearly three weeks ago and it is consistently reporting water quality data. Using...
Powering Camp Rockaway: Urban Camping in NYC
Located in historic Fort Tilden National Park, Camp Rockaway is a 6-week popup campsite created by local architect Kent Johnson. Designed as a way to...
Solar Powered Water Quality Monitoring Tutorial with Adafruit FONA and I/O
In this post, we show how to design a solar-powered water quality monitor using readily available components. The device is designed to float in salt...
PERCH Window Mounted Solutions for Voltaic Solar Chargers
This post was written by the team at PERCH.LA Ideally, we’d all have solar panels on our homes. The reality is that many of us aren’t...
Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera
Using Raspberry Pi in a remote time lapse environment requires power management or a very large solar panel. Dan Julio designed a Raspberry Pi...
Can Your Panel Charge My Battery Pack?
Maybe, but probably not that well. Charging battery packs from a solar panel isn't as straightforward as you think - even if the solar panel...