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I created an automated gardening system called Garduino to monitor soil moisture and automatically water plants, provide supplemental sunlight and warn me when soil temperature drops below 50 degrees Farenheit. Using, Voltaic’s solar panels and battery pack, you can make your Arduino-based gardening even more sustainable by eliminating the need for grid-based power. (more…)

Solar power your garden

 

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 mods we have seen. These are his instructions from the project. (more…)

Mod your own solar bag.

 

 

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 already waterproof, so you just need to focus on the battery. Using a commercially available waterproof case, this [...]

Waterproof a solar laptop charger