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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.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice work. But the phone should be able to host quite a bit more, as it is actually quite fast.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im not sure I want to host more on the phone (yet?). Its a nice novelty but I have other self hosted platforms that are much more robust. This is more of a "can I do it" kind of project. Your seeing my free time right now.

Thanks for the comment!

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

But can you do it more