Green Options » habana works http://greenoptions.com/tag/habana-works Posts tagged 'habana works' Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Students Create Solar-Powered AC Outlet With LEGOs http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/students-create-solar-powered-ac-outlet-with-legos/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/students-create-solar-powered-ac-outlet-with-legos/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:59:44 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/06/students-create-solar-powered-ac-outlet-with-legos/ LEGO MINDSTORMS

Kids today. You let them play with a LEGO MINDSTORMS kit and what do they do? They build a solar powered AC outlet and 12 volt DC power port. At least, that’s what some enterprising students at New York City’s Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School did in the courtyard of the Brooklyn Ecoeatery restaurant.

The Off-Grid Outlet has a tracking mechanism to make sure that it always points towards the sun. The outlet’s users can control the solar panel using switches, and can watch the relationship between the panel and the energy captured via embedded displays.

So who will actually get to make use of the roving outlet?

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