Solar Project Inspiration

September 3, 2018 | Amateur Science, Raspberry Pi | By: Mark VandeWettering

I haven’t got a lot of details about my solar project available, but Project Curacao has all the details of a much more impressive version of the basic idea to serve as inspiration. Basically, the guys at SwitchDoc decided to mount a small solar setup with some lithium polymer batteries, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino that could gather weather and image data unattended from a location in Curacao. My own attempts are much more meager, and not in such an exotic locale, but it will serve as good inspiration.

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Comment from Richard Brown
Time 9/15/2018 at 4:36 pm

Mark, sound great. I just got a ESP 32 and was about to start playing with it. I want to get a breakout board and I was having a problem locating a breakout board that was compatible. I was looking out pin-outs, etc. but to no help. Are the breakout boards for the the ESP8266 the same at the ESP 32? Thanks Richard