DIY - Light recycling Backpack
An interesting DIY project from Instructables user ‘sykoze‘ shows how to make a backpack which catches sunlight during the day via solar panels and gives back the light in form of LEDs during night.
The idea is not new but the way ’sykoze’ has designed his Solar LED Bike Bag has some very useful features.
For once [...]
Make your own Solar Bag and the sun power will be with you
We conclude our DIY project ‘Make your own Solar Bag’ by sharing with you our experience by using our Solar Bag for a month now in many different ‘real life’ situations to give you an idea what you can expect (and what you can’t expect) from the solar charging power of solar bags.
We can only [...]
Make your own Solar Bag - part two
Today you will make your own Solar Bag complete with the guidelines for the electronic part of our project.
A few words to the design: The following electronic concept is based on the DIY instruction from Popular Science but we added a diode which is recommended by our Solar panel supplier Sundance Solar.
The diode protects the [...]
Make your own Solar Bag - part one
A few days ago we started writing about our DIY Solar Bag and today we start to show you how to make your own solar Bag ‘the easy way’. Part one is about the integration of a solar panel in a bag.
What you will need for this part of the project:
A bag. Either you transform [...]
DIY Solar bag
talk2myShirt has formally entered the DIY community by making our very own version of a Solar Bag. It was easy for us to pick our first DIY candidate. Catching solar energy with a bag to power iPod and Co. became very popular this year.
Our DIY instruction guideline will not only give you the technical [...]
