Building a Solar Sun Tracker with Arduino 2023
Our Summer STEM Circle students spent a week coding and building their own solar sun trackers, a device that is controlled by an Arduino microcontroller. A solar panel sits on a custom-built 3-D printed frame with light sensors and motors that tilt in two dimensions in order to track the sun/light and produce power more efficiently.
We had two sessions, one at Northern New Mexico College and another at Santa Fe Community College.