At least give the hw some better shade, eh?

Agreed. Just fastening a second solar panel jutting out and connected to the first one would provide shade and extra power as the unit tracks the sun. If that was too heavy then just a printed shade.

Solar panels on the side might not be worth the hardware since they won't get a great angle for the Sun. I think some lightweight thin white plastic shaders held out on the sides so that there is room for airflow might be most cost-effective.

Free water cooling when it rains too!

suntracking robots for solar panels makes total sense actually, i look up at the windmills at the top of the ridge to the west of me and i wonder how they determine what direction to point the blades because sometimes it seems like they don't seem to know where the wind is

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They just swivel into the wind by themselves. Sorta like water finding its own way downhill. Wind direction can be very different at ground level vs. 200 feet up. That may explain the difference.

yeah, that's retarded in the olden days, when i was a kid, they had windmills to pump water uphill and it was purely mechanical and the windmills had these tail things, wind vanes, that helped it orient correctly to the actual wind direction i fail to see how being so big makes them immune to not finding the direction or just being in a bad orientation to a temporary wind direction, sure, they need to react more slowly, but no vane at all? no rotator with a wind vane sensor? who designed these things? the muppet show writers?

get used to it/ shit! pay the bots to switch direction

I'm probably wrong.

I love it… does that thing also track the sun throughout the day?

Looks like it.

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