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esp8266 Configurable Power Management

“Since the start of getting going with esp8266 boards in late 2015 I’ve had in the back of my mind the idea of how nice it would be to develop a little device that is free of all ties …

GroveWeatherPi - Raspberry Pi Based Weather Station - No Soldering Required

“The Raspberry Pi is a fabulous device to on which to build your projects. The GroveWeatherPi project is designed to show the capabilities of this computer while remaining accessible to a diverse Maker community. The key to keeping this project …

Solar Charger and Adjustable Power Supply

“In this instructable I am going to show you how to build a Solar Charger in a very simple way, so that it will be easy and affordable for anyone to build its own one. We are going to use …

Budget off-grid automatic watering with solar panels

“This instructable includes solar panels powering water pump, Arduino and all electronics under or about $30. The system waters up to 6 planters.”

Solar Powered Weather Station

“A lightweight, self contained, solar-powered weather station for the Raspberry Pi.”

DIY Self Sustaining Solar Powered Backyard Hydroponic Garden

“Lester was an average man of slim yet tall stature. His long curly hair lent strongly to the image of a pot smoker. When the word hydroponics would leave his lips in conversation, the first thing people would imagine is …

Raspberry Pi Solar Tracker (RBST)

“This project is also a Hackaday Prize 2015 entry, which isupdated here. This is still an active project, so the photos dont show the final unit, but should be more informative as you can see the different items I am …

3D Printed 2x2 Solar Cell Panel

“Had some solar cell’s from old solar LED garden lamps, and decided to build a solar battery charger panel.”

Open Source ocean data buoy project

“The next steps for the wave buoy project involves collecting accelerometer and gyroscope data from the onboard IMU and filtering/processing the data with a laptop to determine orientation and position. The math needed to perform these computations is too …

Mini Robot Platform

“The goal of this project is to develop a miniature chassis to experiment with very basic swarm robots. The prime inspiration is James McLurkin’s fantastic MIT project from the early 1990’s http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/ants …