Do you ever wished to build a sophisticated Solar Recorder, which it’s not only can record all the data, but it’s also environmental friendly as well, as it’s power supply come from the solar energy.

Well, if you have decided to develop a solar recorder, then why don’t you spend couple of minutes and read on this article, as you’ll learn how to create a Solar Recorder V2.0 here!

The device that is going to use in this project will be a PIC18F458 microcontroller and the 128 MB Multimedia Memory Card, or also known as MMC. Basically, a calculator solar cell measures the solar radiation (Well, you can easily get the solar cell, by salvaging from your old calculators!)

The PIC chip is used to interface the MMC by using SPI mode. The interval between the samples is set to one minute and the firmware will detect the memory card, assigns the file name and starts the recording automatically.

Meanwhile, the LCD will be used to display the file name, current sample and real-time ADC data as well!

This project is quite a simple and it doesn’t need any expensive components too! Enjoys the project and have some fun with it!