[Carl] recently upgraded his home with a solar panel system ... He managed to build his own monitor using an Arduino. The trick of this build has to do with how the system works.

The brains are an Arduino glued to a large amount of solar support electronics and the online energy monitor component is covered by an ESP8266. The construction works quite well. If you’d like ...

Devices dedicated to this purpose can be pricey in and of themselves, but enterprising Arduino users have created a brilliant answer. Here's how modders created a home energy monitor from an ...

We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us how to build an Arduino-controlled solar fountain. Jason wanted a fountain in his garden. He didn't want to run power out to the ...