I lived in st. Louis Park, MN they had plans to put in a city wide solar powered wifi network… The contract was dissolved due to delays in deployment but solar powered wifi is nothing new… a bit of 802.11s would sure be welcome in that kinda node system though.

is that an arduino I see? :P

anyway, neat stuff, it’d be interesting to see a longer-term record of the wind/solar energy generated. also possibly stringing a series of them.

Next time you shoot a video of a working wind turbine… it would be smart to use a wind proof microphone.

Couldn’t hear a thing but the build seems nicely done

@anonymous,

I’d imagine it’s the radio that ends up consuming most of the power.

In my village we get our internet from a station on a hill above our village. The station is also powered by a wind turbine and a solar panel. So its nothing new

I rely on a small solar panel to power a commercially available 3G wifi access point via a cigar lighter adapter for all my Internet access. Works beautifully.

I have some business ideas for this sort of thing, these sorts of concepts could go a long way for creating low cost intranets, WAN’s and extended neighbourhood networks, also allowing people to share internet connectivity costs. Imagine an entire neighbour hot spot’erised! Wherever you go, you’re connected. Set up a central email server, free IP calling within your suburb, completely removing the ISP from the equationn unless you want to connect to the WWW.

The only ongoing cost would be repairs/maintenance and upgrades.

@Ken I think it’s just reading the hall effect sensor and outputting the data back through the access point

@aj

Not to mention it is much safer, and not nearly as likely to require the EPA to clean up after your mess.

I am going to RIT in the fall for Information Technology & Computer Science. As a member of the Computer Science House, I hope to be involved in projects like this on campus, it looks cool.