About: Hello, I'm Bruce. I'm a student in Belgium. I have a wide variety of interests: electronics, computers, technology, ... In my spare time I spend a lot of time on: projects, exploring the internet, cycling. ht…

This project was one of my final projects I did on my exchange studies in Finland.

For this project I worked together with Fatbardh.

This is a much larger and more advanced version of one of my first projects ever.

Also a solar tracker: https://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Solar-Tracker/ .

The features of this solar tracker are:

Solar tracking: making sure the solar panels are aligned to the sun as long as possible.

Energy monitor: This measures the voltage and the current generated by the panels and calculates the generated Power and Energy.

Data logging: this sends the data from the energy monitor into the cloud of ThingSpeak.

Also there is an LCD to display the values of the energy monitor

In this instructable are technical drawings of the project included. And at step 10 there is a link to the complete project report and presentation.

Why:

To read more about the energy profit from this kind of system please read this chapter on wikipedia.

This is also my entry for the 3D printing contest:

I would love to have a 3D printer. It will help me a lot to do other projects. To make gears and enclosures. So if you found this Instructable interesting please vote for my Instructable in the 3D printing contest.