[dorkbotpdx-blabber] solor powered Dorkboard, fact or fiction?

[Michael Bunsen]

I second that and look forward to seeing what you come up with (especially
if you take the time to do some documentation!). Last x-mas I got a fold-out
solar panel (marked for 12v and 6W?) that I can't wait to put to
good/creative use.  Hangs nicely over my bike rack!

Michael



On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jayson Falkner <jfalkner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> This thread has some great advice in it. Please let me know when you
> finish your project. I'd like to try building a similar setup, and I
> think it'd be a fun thing to document and post on the dorkbotpdx
> website. It seems to me that it'd be cool to have a kit to easily get
> people starting with solar powered dorkboard projects. Sunshine is
> coming....
>
> Jayson
>
> 2009/3/31 scott winner <scott at scenbot.com>:
> > I am looking for some advice or tips. Here is my project,
> >
> > I want to run my Dorkboard on solor power. Don is setting me up with a 3
> > volt chip. That will help a lot. I am going to model the control after
> the
> > Solorbotics voltage trigger; solor energy is stored in caps then dumped
> into
> > the Dorkboard when a critical voltage is reached.
> >
> > So my question for the ether is, what size caps? How much power needs to
> be
> > stored to run the Dorkboard? No motor function, just to blink the light.
> I
> > know how much to run the motors that will be on a separate circuit.
> >
> > Ok go nuts folks.
> >
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