Published Date 2/14/14 1:35 PM I recommend buying a Refurbished Thinkpad laptop to activists. T series – are good soled general use laptops X series are small and very low power for protest camps and solar power setups Used ThinkPads are cheap because after businesses are done with them, which is 3-4 years after they’ve been […]
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Published Date 9/6/13 8:05 AM While summer lasts we aspire to camp electrics being completely powered by solar power. Currently the kitchen, massage/meeting tent and the media/tech tent are working. We have LED lighting and can power 3 laptops and charge around 30-40 phones each day. Other structures have LED lighting running from fixed battery’s. […]
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Balcombe the missing solar Panels
Published Date 8/30/13 3:18 PM I have been at Balcombe camp for nearly 2 weeks working in the tech tent. The campaign is a positive experience and the issue is very winnable. But the internals of the campaign and the camp that is now at its centre is like many in the past dysfunctional anufe […]
Published Date 2/15/12 12:57 PM The solar vagabond. Move your office to a beach or mountain-top far away from the power lines and keep connected. I have been testing and working with solar tech for years and will do a presentation of new and old toys. With advice on which gear to buy/not buy for your laptop/mobile. Feel free […]
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Solar Vagabond
Published Date 2/2/12 4:40 PM The history of my Solar Vagabond kit (DRAFT) Film-makers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate) […]
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My first backpack Solar edit studio
A how to – Solar video production/editing studio. Filmmakers/writers/graphic designers have you ever dreamed of being able to work in the hart of nature rather than a boring office in the hart of the rat race. Well now you can work away from the electric grid (in a sunny climate) using small scale, light wate […]
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Tools for portable video screening
If you are interested in a portable screening projector, this is a full cost 1000 lumens LED solution. I have been useing the older 500 lumens version of this projector for a few years https://amzn.to/2VvnmhC it works well and most importantly you can run it off an external laptop battery https://amzn.to/2WL1LmP This battery is cheap […]
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Support reviewing offgride tech
Published Date 2/21/16 3:07 PM Would like to test some bits from banggood for cheap offgride life. If you would like to push me a donation on the button on the left would help to make this happen. Here are 2 potentially useful pieces of off grid kit 12000mAh 12V Car Jump Starter Car and […]
Published Date 10/28/13 2:14 PM Remember everyone is a volunteer, nobody at camps is payed to do the hard work. At Balcome when I arrived tech was a disaster, all the power was brought in by car by taking 12v battery’s to locales houses brought back by car drained till flat then repeated each day. […]
Published Date 9/10/13 4:49 PM Its interesting to be in the middle of camp life doing something that is core to the camp functioning. Am one of the crew responsible for the tech tent, we run a solar power set-up that charges the camp phones, runs the laptops and provides shaky internet for legal, media […]