How many of us have spent weeks rubbing together the batteries of our TV remotes to get a bit more life out of them before finally biting the bullet and buying some new ones? This could soon be an ...

If you found my recent Smart LED Streetlight useful, below is another solar light that is easy to build and install inside your shed, especially if getting mains power to the shed would be a pain. It ...

This Outdoor LED Solar Garden Lights project is a hobby circuit of an automatic garden light using a LDR and 6V/5W solar panel. During day time, the internal rechargeable 6 Volt SLA battery receives ...

Roughly a fifth of the world’s population can’t connect to the grid directly. Enter Tiny Pipes, a Philippines-based experiment in equipping homes with mini solar panels to rent via mobile phone. Alex ...

You can find small, self-made solar power panels on walls and balconies, roofs and terraces all over the world. Here's a look at what kinds of systems are out there ...

European scientists have developed mini modules with an active area of 14 cm² and a 3.68% efficiency rating. The panels also have a self-adjusting feature that can help to mitigate the amount of light ...

Disaster relief efforts traditionally focus on supplying the basics -- food, water and shelter -- to victims. Columbia University graduate students Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta want light added to ...

Scientists from Singapore's Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University have investigated how thermal evaporation (TE) could be used to fabricate mini perovskite solar modules. TE ...

Reading is big in Québec, and [pepelepoisson]’s young children have access to a free mini library nook that had seen better days and was in dire need of maintenance and refurbishing. In the process of ...