Posts Tagged ‘diy’

I wanted to find a motion led light that would provide more then enough light for moving around the house after dark but was not able to find one that did not cost and arm and a leg. So, I decided to build my own using off the shelf parts.

Nigel Chivers decided to get himself a solar powered radio. In looking at the local retail outlet he was put off by both the price of the cheap units as well as the fact that they had the wind up crank. He did not feel like winding a handle all day long just to listen to the radio. He did however need something that would work out in the middle of nowhere, and work all day long.

Here is what he came up with. An old radio that he made solar powered by using parts from a junk garden lamp. Cheap, and best of all no cranking at all! Yea.

You can checkout his build via the link below.

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Louis LeGrand has always loved the new drones (aka; uav) so one day he decided to build his own solar powered airplane. This thing aint gonna be droppin' anything as it's far too light but hay you have to start somewhere right?

Very nice build Louis! Thanks for sharing it.

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For those of you that may have missed it please see part one of the Solar Powered DIY HotSpot.

I recently built another one of these little units that can be taken literally anywhere. By mounting the entire setup into a portable backpack this can be taken anywhere and not stand out so much. Well, maybe;-)

Our favorite astronomer has updated his page today to include some new video showing how to create your very own wind turbine on the cheap using a treadmill motor and some homemade parts you may already have laying around the house or yard. For those of you that are very mechanically challenged so not worry, he includes step by step his directions for how he did it.

Follow these easy DIY plans and build your own solar powered battery generator.

Here is a complete guide to DIY build/convert your cell phone or PDA to be solar powered without every having to plug it into the wall outlet again. One phone is said to have not been plugged in for over 2 years!

Here is a Perpetual Spy Gadget that you can easily make a home using off the shelf parts. Using a small solar panel you will be able to listen into conversations from over a mile away on any FM radio. The best part is that this will literally run forever (or until it is discovered) Here we show you in detail how its done.

Have you ever though about building your own wind turbine out of spare parts? You may when you see just how easy it is in this tutorial.

I finally got tired of buying tips for my soldering iron every other time I would use the thing. I found a simple and very cheap way to keep the tip of your iron in tip-top shape on the cheap.

Here is a neat little project idea. I recently picked up a cheap china made desktop weather, clock, humidity unit. I found that if I attached one cheap solar panel from a junk garden lamp this thing would stay running just from the lights in the room sitting on my desktop.

A very powerful vawt I built in my basement out of some commonly used parts.

Here is a 1 watt led light project made from an old jewlery box.

This is an interesting little light that I made from an old Edison style light bulb. The clear transparent box I got from Hobby Lobby, the on-off switch I got from Radio Shack.