Post by michael, @michael@social.chrisco.me
social.chrisco.me
Its a solar powered webserver. Its running on an old beat up pixel 6a worth about 20$ and a 10w solar panel. I'm going to make a more formal writeup at s…

This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

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Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn’t get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    nice! i’d recommend keeping the battery a bit lower tho, and perhaps lower charging currency/voltage.

    i believe it’s also possible to run proper linux on this phone btw

    • i_love_FFT@jlai.luEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Which Linux distro would work on a phone? I have an old zenfone 8 lying around.