Imagine what you might do if you could print your own solar panels. That's kind of the dream behind Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein's Solar Pocket Factory -- although they see it more as the "microbrewery" of panel production rather than a tool for everyone's garage. With over $70000 of backing from a successful Kickstarter campaign, the inventors are now working on refining the prototype. If all goes well, by April they'll have a machine that can spit out a micro solar panel every few seconds. In the meantime, Frayne stopped by Flora Lichtman's backyard with a few pieces of the prototype to explain how the mini-factory will work.
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Printing Solar Panels In The Backyard NPR With crowd-sourced funding through Kickstarter, a team of inventors are building a Solar Pocket Factory: a machine designed to print micro solar panels—like the ones used in phone chargers and garden lights. Co-inventor Shawn Frayne stopped by Flora ... |
Introducing the solar pocket factory GigaOM Making mini solar panels, which can power devices like cell phones, in your own backyard — that's the aim of Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein's new project called the Solar Pocket Factory, which recently successfully raised $77,500 on Kickstarter. The ... and more » |
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