{"id":6018,"date":"2015-03-17T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:33:50","slug":"being-green-with-diy-solar-panel-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/being-green-with-diy-solar-panel-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Green with DIY Solar Panel Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering how to celebrate and add some green to your life, consider this &#8212; improving your solar panels with a microcontroller! <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/03\/17\/solar-charge-controller-improves-efficiency-of-solar-panels\/\">This project from Hackaday<\/a> uses an Arduino to harvest more energy from the panel than would otherwise be available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6022\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/03\/17\/solar-charge-controller-improves-efficiency-of-solar-panels\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6022 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/solar-panels-st-patricks-day-600x444.jpg\" alt=\"Image from Hackaday.\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/solar-panels-st-patricks-day-600x444.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/solar-panels-st-patricks-day-225x167.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/solar-panels-st-patricks-day.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/03\/17\/solar-charge-controller-improves-efficiency-of-solar-panels\/\">Hackaday<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, you can modify this project to use one of Digilent&#8217;s microcontrollers (the uC32 or WF32, perhaps) you have around. What St. Patrick&#8217;s Day projects do you have going on?<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-6018 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='6018' data-nonce='1cb2a57891' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6018 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-6018 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6018' data-nonce='1cb2a57891' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6018 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-6018 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day! If you&#8217;re wondering how to celebrate and add some green to your life, consider this &#8212; improving your solar panels with a microcontroller! This project from Hackaday uses an Arduino to harvest more energy from the panel than would otherwise be available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/solar-panels-st-patricks-day.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}