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This sounds like an amazing project and learning opportunity! Reminds me of a halfbaked hardware+software project idea of my own: - Goal: increase the amount o
by EForEndeavour 4y ago
This sounds like an amazing project and learning opportunity! Reminds me of a halfbaked hardware+software project idea of my own:
- Goal: increase the amount of natural light in my apartment during the day
- Mount a flat mirror on a motorized sun-tracking attachment on south-facing balcony railing
- Set up geometry, software, and motor to rotate the mirror so that it always reflects a beam of sunlight into the apartment, trained on a target area between the wall and ceiling, above eye level of occupants
- zwieback 4y agoCool idea, there is a town in Austria where the sun doesn't shine in winter and they were going to build something like that on the adjacent mountaintop. I think it never happened, though.
- larubbio 4y agoAn Italian town did build a mirror to do that. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-manmade-sun https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-... [edit] Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks the sun. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirrors-to-light-up-dark-valleys/100613/ https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/10/using-giant-mirror...
- eitland 4y agoIt is done in Norway: https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/the-giant-sun-mirrors-in-rjukan/3632/ https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/the-giant-sun-mirrors-i... More results here: https://kagi.com/search?q=rjukan+mirror&r=no&sh=jDluj1x6n_J8PEV_EMaYvQ https://kagi.com/search?q=rjukan+mirror&r=no&sh=jDluj1x6n_J8...
- madphilosopher 4y agoIf you focus multiple mirrors on a single spot, you can set things on fire. Depending on one's application, this is a feature, not a bug!