Solar Chargers

The plan was to learn to build a solar powered lantern using recycled and donated materials as much as possible. We will have a load of small solar panels around, some LED lights, components and ideas for packaging it all up. The end result should be similar to the sun-jar, but its up to you what happens. In the end we decided upon building solar battery chargers for charging 2 x AA batteries.

Some links include:

• MIT global challenge 2011 with some solar lanterns
• Solar lanterns for India Instructable
• Solar lantern idea
• Solar lantern idea
• Solar lantern idea
• Solar lantern for the developing world
• Communities of light presentation
• Solar lantern ideas with lots of circuits

Photos of the workshop are here. Chat with Matt L if you'd like to build one yourself.

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Find information about us building Joule Thief's here