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24 alternatives to Homemade automated solar concentrator
Hi HN! I quit my job two years ago to have more time to work on my side projects. The main one is an automated solar concentrator. I've just open-sourced it, it's not perfect nor finished, and I still have a lot of ideas for further development, but I'm interested in knowing what you think of it. There are many applications where concentrated solar power could be a viable environmental and economic solution, I hope this technology will one day be more widely used. Feel free to give any feedback and ask questions.
Homemade Automated Solar Concentrator is an open-source project for building a system that automatically tracks and concentrates sunlight. Designed for anyone interested in renewable energy, it aims to demonstrate how… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Homemade automated solar concentrator launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Sunboxlabs - Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors.
2017 · sunboxlabs.com · its alternatives →
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SolarAssets▲136Simple investments in solar energy driven by web3
2023 · solarassets.app · its alternatives →
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Solar Roadways ▲83Incredible modular paving system of solar panels.
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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Sunboxlabs - Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors.
2024 · sunboxlabs.com · its alternatives →
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Detect objects in drone videos and plot them on a map - roboflow/dji-aerial-georeferencing
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Permission-free solar energy & storage, powered by AI
2019 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · old.reddit.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I help run an academic conference on Nonimaging Optics (optics for optimal energy transfer in solar concentrators or illumination systems). This year, we are hosting a design challenge, and I thought it could be fun for some in the HN crowd to participate. Maybe some of you have ideas for completely different design approaches than what we typically see on the field. The challenge: Design an efficient "solar concentrator" for a sun shaped like the letters "XX" (instead of our regular round sun). The challenge is set up so that the ideal geometry would be 100% efficient*. However, we…
2025 · nonimaging-conference.org · its alternatives →
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I built solarscope.io, a tool that combines NASA satellite data with AI to help solar developers and engineers analyze solar energy potential for any location worldwide. The backstory: This started as my electrical engineering thesis project a few years ago. Back then (prior to mainstream AI tools) it was a clunky step-by-step interface with basic calculations. After seeing what modern AI could do, I rebuilt it from scratch with a cleaner dashboard and AI-powered insights plus chat functionality. I'm a self-taught developer (started building websites at 14) who got into solar through my…
Feb 2026 · solarscope.io · its alternatives →
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Mosaic▲75Crowdfund solar energy projects, get a profit as an investor
2014 · solarservicingllc.com · its alternatives →
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Finding funding for small commercial solar.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Sunboxlabs - Premium Solar Kits for self-install clean energy, and batteries for backup, off-grid & outdoors.
2019 · sunboxlabs.com · its alternatives →
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sunboxlabs▲61Plug n play solar kits for backup, outdoors or offgrid.
2020 · sunboxlabs.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Shawn here. My rooftop system lost about half a year of production and nobody told me. Not the installer, not the monitoring app, not the utility. I found out from an electric bill that made no sense, then spent weeks digging through the monitoring portal by hand. SunRanker is what I wished existed that day. Connect a system once (Enphase OAuth, or a SolarEdge site ID plus API key) and it reads production daily, shows it in plain language, and emails you when something actually changes. Three alerts only. The connection broke, the monitoring went quiet, or output has been well below…
Aug 2026 · sunranker.com · its alternatives →
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A high-performance solar phone charger
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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