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Deciding on our Project

A project log for Solar Powered LoRaWAN GPS tracker + phone charger

An environmental friendly visor using solar energy to charge handheld devices and supports GPS tracking/SOS through Helium LoraWAN network.

superpowered-jalapenosSuperpowered Jalapenos 06/28/2023 at 21:100 Comments

We brainstormed and made a list of projects that would be environmentally friendly and sounded interesting. This list consisted of many silly as well as really cool ideas: 

  • Solar-powered phone charger
  • Human Powered phone charger
  • Electricity storing flying pigeon
  •  We decided on Solar powered visor because solar power would be available everywhere outdoors, and most people need phone chargers when they are outdoors. 

    We also related to this problem a lot because all of our team went on a hike pre-pandemic, and we lost our way. Some of us hadn't brought our phones, and the other phones had run out of charge. It was a frightening experience, but we were luckily able to ask someone for help and found our way back.

    After deciding on using solar power, we wanted to think of where to put the solar panels on. We started brainstorming different ideas, like the top of your shoes, a hat, a backpack, a jacket, sunglasses, and more. However, we decided to just use a hat because it has the most flat area surface, and has the most exposure to the sun.

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