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Seems deeply inspired by https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ - Yes they mention it on their website. Love LowTechMagazine. I
by thejarren 3y ago
Seems deeply inspired by https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
- Yes they mention it on their website. Love LowTechMagazine.
I've been meaning to try this out sometime. It'd be a fun side project.
- zahrc 3y agoYep. It’s mentioned in the about section
- replwoacause 3y agoThe LowTechMagazine version is way cooler, frankly.
- Gigachad 3y agoI gave it a go a few years ago. It seemed like all the solar battery chargers I could find were for lead acid. So I got one of those batteries you'd find in a UPS and a panel. Initially it was working alright but the battery very quickly degraded to the point the pi would run out of power every night. Realistically just a waste of resources unless you are doing it purely for fun.
- picture 3y agoIsn't fun the main point of artisanal technology projects like this? Did you really expect to save money by using solar at such a micro scale where you get precisely none of the economics of scale? Besides, lowtechmagazine also goes offline from time to time: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#often https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#often It seems like your battery perhaps wasn't big enough, or you haven't taken enough measures to engineer your system. This certainly isn't plug-and-play without getting an enormously oversized solar and battery setup.
- nmz 3y agoIt's interesting that they're serving uncompressed text, they could be serving gzipped content-encoding which would save a bit of bandwidth which translates to power usage.