🌞 People Build Solar-Powered Servers

Some time ago I’ve published an article stating that battery-less devices are the next big thing.

We can gather efficiently energy from various sources meaning in the future we may not need batteries at all (or almost at all).

An interesting example in this direction is the Ironwood Solar page.

The page is not sophisticated in the today’s means. It has a about page, a privacy policy page, home and stats.

What’s interesting about it is served from a Raspberry-PI-like device (not confirmed: Olimex A20 Lime2) attached to a 144 watt battery and 30 watt solar panel.

During peak sun such panel can produce 1.6 amps of DC, is about 24x15 inches and weights 6 pounds.

The page doesn’t reveal if the system connects to WiFi, LTE or LAN. So it’s hard to figure out if it is portable at first. But after an initial research it looks like LAN or WiFi connection.

But still, it’s an interesting proof of concept of self-sufficient web servers.

Images on the page are dithered to save some transfer. There are also statistics of the server: