[Commotion-discuss] Consideration for solar-powered urban mesh offering Commotion, Tidepools, Internet access

[Alexander Chemeris]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
> As for a community charging station, my friend Dann Green (former St. Louis
> resident / all-around geek) built this one recently.  This, however, is
> definitely an order of magnitude above what I was considering for the solar
> rooftop mesh nodes, which is namely just one or two mini-USB ports supplied
> with 5V from the battery.
> http://blog.makezine.com/2010/04/29/mfba-solarpump-electric-charging-st/

This things are very popular in Africa, India and Asia, so you could
get off-the-shelf solutions. This is just one which recently popped up
in our conversations:
http://ecco.in/products.htm

Here is another popular one:
http://www.bboxx.co.uk/solar_kits.php

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Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио
http://fairwaves.ru