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Solar-powered web server

Rein van der Woerd

An old Android phone serves the website of this exhibition.

We wanted to have a website that is solar powered and built using found materials. The solar panels were gifted by different people at the Hof van Cartesius. During the process I found that a laptop was too power hungry to stay on for long, and realized that a phone was built to sip power slowly. Because a phone already operates on low voltage we could skip the external battery and the conversion to 220 volts.

 

Inspired by Low Tech Magazine’s solar server in Barcelona following this guide.

 

Built with solar panels donated by Christian Takes and Bert Hermans.