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My uncle's newest creation, as posted to Facebook. I was tagged as being in this photo, along with about ten other people.

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Solar Panel Passivly Bio-mimicing a Heliotropic Flower - Automated squirt bottle delivers a jet of water at a frequency of every 10 sec., 6 x / min., or 360x / hr. This little solar panel ( 2 cells in series ) produces 13v and @ 80 milliamps - charge is stored in the blue capacitors in the yellow sandwich box and is released every 10 sec. driving a solenoid triggered squirt bottle. The panel is to track the sun with out any power consuming motor(s) via bio-mimicry. So far everything works but the passive tracking. Considering Nitinol Springs in conjunction with Fresnel-style lensing in the form of a curved strip in order to achieve the tracking effect.

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