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solar panel, the panels have long been used almost exclusively on rooftops and as part of industrial-scale solar grids
discovered, he says, is there were no developer tools to build a self-charging project
Unlike with hardware projects, where developers can turn to the open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino, and to Raspberry Pi, a
After attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years and befriending a fellow student, Paul Couston, who helped
In fact, Kalyanpur, now 21, was recently given a Thiel Fellowship, a two-year-long program that includes a $100,000 grant to young people
who want to build new things, along with a lot of mentorships and key introductions.Now, the company has closed on a separate $1.75 million
round of seed funding from a long list of notable individual investors, including Eventbrite co-founders Kevin - Julia Hartz; TJ Parker, who
is the founder and CEO of PillPack (now an Amazon subsidiary); Pinterest COO Francoise Brougher: and Jeff Lutz, a former Google SVP.What
Though still nascent, Optivolt has already figured out a way to provide efficient power transfer systems, solar developer and simulation
Think e-scooters, EVs, drones, sensors and other connected devices.Asked how it all works on a more granular level, Kalyanpur declines to
signed on to work with Optivolt in pilot programs.If it works as planned, it sounds like a pretty big opportunity
Though some companies have begun making smaller solar-powered vehicles, there are presumably many outfits that would prefer to find a way to
retrofit the hardware they already have in the world, which Kalyanpur says will be possible.He says they can use their existing batteries,
