Components Required: A solar-powered fan, an insulated box, aluminum foil, scissors, a blade or a saw, glue, tape, and standard hardware tools. Solar-Powered Water Still (Medium) Brief Overall: With sunlight, you can use a simple DIY build to turn incoming cold water into hot water to shower or bath in. A tiny, greenhouse-like shed collects and stores sunlight and heats the water that’s inside of the collection bin. Components Required: A long measuring tape, a ladder, proper safety gear, and a calculator. DIY Cardboard Solar Oven (Medium) With one bottle filled with dirty water, purified water will be evaporated and collected in the second bottle, empty, as the sun shines down on the bottles. In just a few minutes, you’ll start seeing water droplets!

Components Required: Tiny jars, solar-powered lamps, cans of frosting spray of chosen colors, pliers, a screwdriver, and tape. Starting a Fire with Chocolate and a Can (Easy) Applications: During a hot summer day, if you want free air that’s powered by the sun, this project will come in handy. Besides just you, if you decide to scale the project, you can cool down an entire room with enough solar power. Brief Overall: For those interested in laser engraving or laser cutting, this DIY might suit you! Simply, by taking a magnifying glass, you can focus the rays of the sun into a powerful beam that engraves on most materials and even cuts through weaker materials. By utilizing a solar panel meant for charging a phone, you can set up a Bluetooth speaker in a position where the solar charger would power your speaker while charging your phone, so you’re not losing any power.

Components Required: USB charging circuit, a 4V+ solar panel, AA battery holder, AA rechargeable batteries, a 1N914 Diode, an Altoid tin box, wires, a soldering iron, solder, a glue gun, and tape. Wrap Up All you have to do is calculate the square footage of your roof and divide the number by 15 (the square footage of an average solar panel)—that is how many solar panels you’ll need. The best part about this project is that it’s completely scalable—you can make this as small as a cellphone or as large as a ceiling fan (which will require more power and hardware). Bad weather is bad news for Sun Jars! In winter, or cloudy weather, your Sun Jar may illuminate for less time than usual, or may not light up at all. When there is not enough sunlight, you can remove the battery and charge it in a normal battery charger.

We hope that this guide helps you build your next solar DIY project during the weekend! These projects are more than just for usage; they help teach you and others about the sun’s infinite uses while saving the environment. FCC (USA Only) Complies with part 15 of FCC rules. Safe to use without interfering with other electrical devices.Components Required: Hardware materials like wood, plastic, screws, etc., glass sheets, a water-collecting bin, pipes for incoming water and output, and time. Solar-Powered Fan (Medium) There are no visible switches on the jar; a light sensor automatically activates the lights when darkness falls (i.e. when the sun sets or you turn the lights off!) However if you do wish to turn the sun jar off manually, there is an override switch inside the lid.