Project 2 - Solar Power Project

In the last class meeting Kah was talking about creating a solar powered project, thus being sustainable and he said something about solar powered lights at the warehouse. And while i was there for another project i managed to pick one up for $9.99. Then I hacked it apart. So here is what i did:

The Complete Light

The Solar Panel on the top

Without all of the crap, Has an AA rechargeable battery

The inner circuit, has a switch for turning on and off

There was a mass of gunk protecting the wiring to the solar panel so i had to scrape it off.

After scraping off the gunk i had to use sum force to get the panel out of the housing. (And as you can see it was glued to the housing)

And here is the free solar panel. I had to remove the wires to get the panel off but this will just require sum solder and abit of TLC

What I plan to do next it to cut off the AA battery charger and fix a 9V rechargeable battery to it. What i want is a self contained project that just does its own thing when it wants so this was a vital step in the process.