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This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

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Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Over here, probably. Its the summer Ill have to do something about. If it gets over 110F constantly it might not be good to keep it out there.