I've always been fascinated with renewable energy, ever since my first solar powered calculator in the 1980's. Today, I like to find cost-effective ways of integrating renewable energy into my life.
Read about my first project; using solar power to recharge my cell phone and MP3 player:
http://digitalquirk.ca/wordpress/?p=34 (http://digitalquirk.ca/wordpress/?p=34)
Quote from: DigitalQuirk on April 23, 2009, 11:00:26 PMRead about my first project; using solar power to recharge my cell phone and MP3 player:
Heh, what you need is a way to solar-power a C64 set-up (more likely, a C64 DTV set-up built into a little case like the Toughbook 64 DTV). :)
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 25-26 CommVEx v5 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX
Quote from: RobertB on April 23, 2009, 11:22:20 PM
Quote from: DigitalQuirk on April 23, 2009, 11:00:26 PMRead about my first project; using solar power to recharge my cell phone and MP3 player:
Heh, what you need is a way to solar-power a C64 set-up (more likely, a C64 DTV set-up built into a little case like the Toughbook 64 DTV). :)
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 25-26 CommVEx v5 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX
Sounds like a project I might take on down the road. My next project is to run a laptop computer entirely from solar power.
Quote from: DigitalQuirk on April 23, 2009, 11:38:25 PMMy next project is to run a laptop computer entirely from solar power.
Expanding on that a bit, I'd say a Netbook with a solid-state drive would use less energy than a regular laptop and would be better to power entirely from solar power.
Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 25-26 CommVEx v5 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum and click on ComVEX
I do like the idea of a Solar powered Commodore. Generating the 9VAC for systems needing that would be the biggest hurdle but not insurmountable. Use of a solid state "drive" such as uIEC or other such devices and a small lcd display commonly used for those dvd players used in cars would both save on energy requirement and be more portable.