The solar iPhone charger project

I use my iPad charger to charge my iPhone 4. Simple enough, right? Charging is a breeze; it takes just a couple hours since it's being fed 10w of 5.1 DCV electricity! On the AC end though, the charger sucks up 54w of electricity, continuously, until it is unplugged. This becomes a hassle if one is trying to be environmentally friendly since you constantly have to plug and unplug the charger... If you're like me, you're plug isn't in a convenient location and are lazy, so it doesn't get unplugged. When the power goes out, I'm left without my phone if it's for more than a day because I use it to the point of draining the battery on a daily basis. All this is to be solved with my latest project: the solar iPhone charger.


Materials:
2w Solar Panel - http://tinyurl.com/5rzua8u
Lithium Ion/LiPo battery charger board - http://tinyurl.com/25cnpou
Lithium Ion/LiPo battery - http://tinyurl.com/5v3ofoq
MintyBoost iPhone charger - http://tinyurl.com/mcthu
Pelican 10-60 Micro Case - no link for this one, sorry!
A little bit of low-guage wire
Soldering Gun


That's the list... I've ordered most everything, but am waiting on the charger board and battery to come back in stock. That's what currently is holding up this project. 


Using a different battery, I can have over 5 days of reserve power even if the sun doesn't shine. If the sun is shining (here in Florida it generally does), then I have almost unlimited power. Thus, my phone is about to get that much greener. I can also say good-bye to the iPad charger and use it only when necessary exclusively for the iPad!

<- Charger board!