I found a little bit of wiggle room in my schedule so i decided to do a little work on the solar charger, its not really much but its all I had time for.

Ok I started off by getting a 1/4 in. diameter nut about 1 in. long and glued it to a 4x1 in. piece of aluminum.
If you have never used or heard of JB weld before then your missing out. It is a must have for any job anywhere, its some seriously useful stuff. I also have a 6 in. threaded rod that the mounting plate is going to go on I just forgot to take a picture.
I cut out a piece of foam the size of my solar panel (about 5x3 in.) which will be attached to the mounting plate and then threaded onto the rod. The rod will be suspended between the two pivot points depicted in my drawings. I know its not much but its all I had time for, hopefully I'll be able to get some more work done next week. Feel free to leave comments and opinions.

Ok I'm back and I know I haven't really updated my blog in a little while (I've been really busy). I'll hopefully be able to post some pictures and info about the solar charger sometime this week, but the majority of the physical construction will have to wait until I have access to a workshop in about 2 weeks.

I had a little bit of time this morning so i decided to do the 3D mock up of the solar charger redesign, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Well I went back and looked at my design for the solar charger and thought it needed a redesign. I added a pivot point for the solar panel since the sun isn't always were you want it to be and slimmed down the design. I will be posting a 3D rendition of it hopefully some time this week (really busy right now), feel free to post suggestions and comments.

Ok I made a quick 3D mock up of the solar charger sketch I posted earlier on. I know its not much to look at but that was never really my intention, maybe once I get the thing up and running I'll work on making it look pretty.

The blue rectangular thing is the solar panel

And the top view (that small rectangular piece is the USB port)

I'll probably be posting the electrical circuit later on today or possibly tomorrow as well as the list of electrical hardware (and where to get it).

Well needless to say I'm a huge Isaac Asimov fan and while there have always been things in his books that have intrigue me one of the inventions that most stood out in my mind was the way they controlled the robots in his robot series. In the book one of the characters would make a specific hand gesture and it would mean a specific function the robot was to preform. In the book this was achieved by the hand being placed in an electronic field and the distortion caused by the hand gesture would activate the function, this seems a little out of my league so I thought I would use a camera with some kind of recognition features programed into it. Hopefully I will actually make this instead of just leaving it as an idea.

This is just the basic concept of the Ankle Charger I mentioned in my second post.

 Like always comments and feedback are always welcome.

Sup,

First post on Pedro's Project, im not Pedro. Hes very lazy to change the name.

So i remember seeing a video about a company that designed a coffee table that morphes into a racing chair. I thought to myself "Shit! That is a smart ass idea" then i saw the price...5Grand for this.

The way its designed is the chair just folds into the table and a cover on top for the "table" part of it. For something that is this simple, 5grand is WAY too much to be paying. I've decided to make the same design for under 150$(estimated price). I will be having my Winter Break in 1 week when i will start to plan this out with my good friend, Pedro.

This is definitely the blog to follow for day to day updates on this project!

If we get enough followers, i might just sell this project for less than it cost me create it :D Of course i will post step by step on how to create with pictures.

Well it seems that the friend I mentioned in a previous post wants to co-write for my blog, so everyone please welcome Kon.

• A solar powered charging dock (for phone, mp3, or any other USB device)
• A lamp that is triggered by your hand (just replacing the manual switch with a photo eye)
• Another charging deice that uses the kinetic motion of your ankle while walking to charge a device