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Solar Power Devices
Enter Your Electronics & Design Project for your chance to win a Grand Prize for the most inspiring project or a $100 shopping cart!
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Enter Your Electronics & Design Project for a chance to win a Grand Prize for the most inspiring project or a $100 shopping cart!
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Solar Power Devices | Vote or Submit Your Ideas! | |
The theme this month is Solar Power Devices and it comes from dwinhold, ntewinkel , and mcb1 . The idea being that its summertime so its time to create devices that use solar devices. This is not the first time the members have voted for solar energy projects, last year during the solar eclipse the was a Solar Powered Yard Gadget . For this theme you can do your own Solar Powered Yard Gadget , such as the Tilt Solar Light by carmelito and Building a Solar Charger by shabaz , if you missed out the last time, or you can do anything as long as it takes advantage of the energy of the sun. It's been incredibly hot here in the Midwest, and throughout the world this summer. Your devices can be anything that harnesses the natural energy of the sun to create energy. |
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Step 1 You are already logged in - move to step 2. Register or Login to participate! |
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Step 2 View the current theme and discuss ideas! |
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Step 3 Share a blog entry of your progress and engage with Community members! |
The Monthly Theme You Voted For: Solar Power Devices | ||
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Project14 | The Heat Is On: Harvest the Energy of the Sun to Build Solar Devices! | ||
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The theme this month is Solar Power Devices and it comes from dwinhold, ntewinkel , and mcb1 . The idea being that its summertime so its time to create devices that use solar devices. This is not the first time the members have voted for solar energy projects, last year during the solar eclipse the was a Solar Powered Yard Gadget . For this theme you can do your own Solar Powered Yard Gadget , such as the Tilt Solar Light by carmelito and Building a Solar Charger by shabaz , if you missed out the last time, or you can do anything as long as it takes advantage of the energy of the sun. It's been incredibly hot here in the Midwest, and throughout the world this summer. Your devices can be anything that harnesses the natural energy of the sun to create energy. |
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The Grand Prize
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About Project14 | Directions |
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Every month you'll have a new poll where you'll get to decide an upcoming project competition, based on your interests, that will take place a couple of months in advance. Themes are broad in scope so that everyone can participate regardless of skill set.
What are Monthly Themes?
What are Monthly Theme Polls?
| Step 1: Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free. Step 2: Post in the comments section below to begin a discussion on your idea. Videos, pictures and text are all welcomed forms of submission. Step 3: Submit a blog post of your progress on your project by the end of the month. You are free to submit as many blog entries as you like until the beginning of the next theme.
Be sure to include video proof of your project!
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You have until Sept 14th, 12:00 AM CDT to submit your completed project!
A jury consisting of your peers will judge project submissions! |
by ralphjy in Solar Power Devices on Sep 14, 2018
I learned a lot putting together the Solar SPEC unit for the Heat Is On Challenge. I still have some work to do finishing the SPEC unit, but I've also thought of some other solar related more...
by ralphjy in Solar Power Devices on Sep 14, 2018
We're at the last day of the Heat is On Challenge. Here is the initial block diagram of my project: I've implemented all of the hardware elements with the exception of only implementing a more...
by snidhi in Solar Power Devices on Sep 14, 2018
Finally the Arduino UNO was replaced by a Arduino Nano for the final tests. The Ultimate Block Diagram Final SimpleSolar BOT Finally Update more...
by ralphjy in Solar Power Devices on Sep 14, 2018
I've updated the 8266 program to change the temperature sensor from the DHT22 to the 18B20. It was a straightforward change using the OneWire and DallasTemperature libraries. Initially more...
by ralphjy in Solar Power Devices on Sep 13, 2018
I've completed the build of my SPEC unit. 1) Added terminal block for external temperature sensor 2) Added 18B20 temperature probe 3) Added power switch 4) Added power indicator LED 5) Adapted more...