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Solar Shades

There’s something so elegant about this project. In addition to liking the overall design, I really like the educational aspect of these solar shades – having kids learn about solar energy, and the importance of finding the most efficient angle as they turn the panels. On the other hand, it is still extremely wasteful, like [...]

Faucetricity

Our assignment in sustainable energy was to work on producing electricity from a stepper motor. Hacking the life out of an old scanner I had lying at home produce two stepper motors. Connecting them to two diode bridges (rectifiers), turns the AC voltage generated by turning the motor into DC (diagram here – I used [...]

Xbee setup for Solar Panel Network

Solar Panel Link:

Description of what our objective is…

Xbee Radios:

Addressing:

3 layers: Channel, Pan ID and DL/DH

Short 16-bit addresses. The module can be configured to use short 16-bit addresses as the
Source Address by setting (MY < 0xFFFE). Setting the DH parameter (DH = 0) will configure the
Destination Address to be a short 16-bit address (if DL < [...]