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Solar life |
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Designed by Brian Fields. |
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Symets |
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These little guys are as simple as you can get. They take no longer then half an hour to make and they are super energetic. Basically all Symets are is a motor, a SE (Solar engine, see circuit page), a capacitor, and a solar cell. The way you set up these parts is somewhat important though because a symet goes around then when it bumps into something it falls on another side and goes off that way. |
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Miller Solar Engine– J Trigger(2.7V) CD Player Motor A Broken 2433 solar cell 1000+3300=4300 Cap
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Fracture to date is my only symet. He is totally made of spare and broken parts. Although the solar cell looks like a 2422 it is actually a 2433 that got a third broken off it. The clear plastic ring is the center of a CD that I managed to glue onto the bottom of the motor. Although I am not a very big fan of symets they do add a sense of chaos to your RJP (Robot Jurassic Park). I plan to at least build one more. |
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Pummer Basically all that a pummer is, is a sophisticated night light. For all they do is charge when there is bright enough light and then flash when it gets dark enough. If the flashing could make a noise it would go like this-PPUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMmm So I’m glad it just makes light and not noise. I would go insane.
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Plate is my only pummer that I have. It’s the same circuit that Solarbotics has. It is also in my circuit section. The funning thing about this pummer is that it sits on a rather large solar cell. It was salvaged from one of those solar light that you can get at your local hardware store. It produces about 6.5 volts. I got the name because the pummer looks like it is being served on a plate. It only has a 1F cap and the two little leds that are from solarbotics. On a full charge it will go for about 2 and a half hours. A fun little device. |
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Quad is very simple. It is the same thing as the Solarbotics 1381 Symet kit. Just that I changed the motor to make it look and work better. I soldered everything mainly to the motor to make things simple. While most people go with a circle for the outside cap leads I went with a square, it’s mainly because I couldn’t form a good circle. The funny marks on the solar cell is where glue messed it up-heh still works. |