Tiny House Tanzania-Solar Power

August 15, 2015

This week we are looking at adding Solar Power Generation and wiring up the Tiny House. Be forewarned I show my math-yes I qualify for nerdom. After the video are some photos from the science conference in Singida last weekend. As I state with all my Tiny House Tanzania videos, I recommend the show Tiny House Nation on the FYI Network with John and Zack as some of my ideas will be coming from that show.

The photo above is from making the metal frame for the roof mounted solar panel. I am drilling a hole for a bolt to attach the panel to the frame. Some may remember it took 4 minutes to drill a 1/2" auger bit through a 1" piece of wood. It took an average of 15 minutes to hand drill the bolt hole through a piece of metal 4 mm thick. About the same length of time the video is this week.

Here is Tiny House Tanzania Episode 3-Solar Power link to YouTube video if window below does not work: https://youtu.be/H9rARQfdzGU

One another note, last weekend I was invited to visit with a group of Peace Corp volunteers and their Science Conference in Singida. This conference differed from previous ones held in Singida because it was Co-Ed and was Science only. Each school participating brought 3 girls and 3 boys from various levels of high school. Two Peace Corp volunteers set up and run the conference and get help from the volunteers who bring students. Some of the events included doing Sudoku puzzles, math relay races, making balloon powered cars, making bridges, making aqueducts, egg drop and raft rally. Students were broken into teams that mixed genders, age levels and schools and competed against the other teams.

It was well done as all the volunteer's conferences have been but since this one was Science and some math only I really appreciated the opportunity to participate. Here are some pictures from the event.