For those of you eco-enthusiasts out there (like me), you might be happy to learn that ReNu solar-powered iPhone/iPod speakers will be available so you can enjoy your favorite music without adding to the world’s carbon footprint but by using solar power! You can pre-order yours on Amazon here for $149.
The best part about these new ReNu speakers is that they can even “recharge” your iPod or iPhone using the po
Valentines is around corner and if you want to give your lover something unique and to remember by, you can make one of these nifty solar-powered digital photo frames with a rather affordable digital photo frame keychain, solar cells, and some glue to make it all stick together. Also see my DIY on glowing heart.
At the core is a standard off-the-shelf keychain digital picture frame. It is mounted in a fancy enclosure, in this case a flower that is modeled after a
Here’s a really cool set of DIY solar power bottle boat kits. If you have a lake nearby or even a pool in the backyard, it might be a great idea to get your kids started on eco-science experiments. $24.95 at SpheralSolar.com
This is a fun kit to build your own solar powered boat. You provide the recycled soda bottle and the kit has everything else you need.Includes complete instructions with 3 boat designs, waterpro
You know every year, solar power is getting cheaper by the dozen, solar lights are everywhere including front yard of many homes that I see in my neighborhood. Well, there’s a way you can hack those cheap solar lights into solar LED bricks, this instructable shows you how. Brilliant.
With this in mind, I combed craigslist for some suitably shaped glass blocks, went to Home Depot for the appropriate solar light, stocked up on speaker wire and came up with the Solar Powered Walkway!
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIRV_WmQ7A
Looking for a great Christmas gift for your whiz kid? Here’s a great DIY that shows you how to make a solar powered ball robot. Of course, there exactly isn’t a kit for this but all the parts are easily findable so it might actually work better than any other gift you can buy off the shelf.
This technology of using minimal electronics and simple mechanical design is call BEAM robotics.
The Miniball itself was originally invented by Richard Weait of North York, Toronto.The Miniball is a amazing robot
For those Apple fanboys who also tend to keep a good modern, stylish home, you might want to consider this $2,299 GIANT solar-powered iPhone/iPod dock that will let you recycle the power of the sun and use its 60-watt equivalent speakers to output some stereo music. I know, this is going overboard and I probably wouldn’t get it (for this outlandish price) but perhaps some of you have money waiting to burn on stuff like this. (I rather spend it on a
If you haven’t checked out these funny looking really efficient vibrobots (which sounds funny too), make sure you do. They seems to run primarily on solar power and you can do a lot with it. (hopefully… :P)
In the current issue of MAKE (Vol. 8), I have a piece on Pum
