Everyone's rightly concerend about the environment and climate change and now you can help your kids do something about it.
This is a great solar project to build with them that lets them charge their devices (and rechargeable batteries of any type) using solar panel power. What's really cool about it is that it automatically tracks the sun across the sky!
Watch the time lapse video of a whole day in under 2mins:
Why pay for electricity when you can get it for free and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time?
It's a great semi-permanent installation for your back yard and one you can also take on camping holidays!
Skills
- Cutting, drilling and filing aluminium tubing
- Working with wood
- A little soldering
Major parts needed
Links are given in the project for the hard-to-find things
- Aluminium tubing
- Wooden box or make it yourself
- N20 30rpm motor
- 90:1 gearbox
- TP4056 lithium ion battery charging module
- 18650 lithium ion battery
- Microswitch
Here's the link to the project: https://niftytoolz.com/a-hobbyist-solar-tracker-for-charging-batteries
