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Tom's Hardware Guide recently built a mobile Wii station, complete with an HD monitor, that's powered in part by a solar energy (check out the Tom's Workshop video of the project). It's a simple invention on many levels. For one, it didn't cost much at all to find a battery, power converter and appropriately-sized solar power panel. And the station itself is just wood with a couple of wheels and a coat of blue paint slapped on. For this purposes of this experiment, we decided to keep the costs low and create a repeatable formula in case anyone else wanted to try something similar. THG video editor Ben Meyer and lab manager Shelton Rohmanyi procured the parts, while Shelton and THG camera man Max Wilson put the actual station together. I left for Wondercon and GDC and by the time I got back a week later, the entire thing was completed. Here are the various parts with their respective prices (not including taxes or shipping fees):



The Ingredients
Nintendo Wii with a copy of Wii Sports $249.99
Copy of Excite Truck $49.99
Gateway HD FPD2485W monitor $679.99
PowerUp 20W 12V solar power panel $181.25
Energizer 27DC-850 Deep Cycle battery $79.99
Vector 225W power inverter $39.99
Speed Glo power meter $29.99
Large battery box $14.99
Outlet plug adapter $14.99
Wood for mobile carrier $40
Wheels, fasteners and other materials $50
Total: approximately $1,431.17

check out the solar powered Wii here/SOURCE

LOL... wow. People sure are doing weird things with their Wiis...

Yeah, kinda funny but you wouldn't be able to play because of the glare of the sun on the screen and the light messing with the sensitivity of the Wiimote.

Which kinda defeats the purpose of a solar powered Wii, but it's still cool.

Yea, it'd totaly be messing up the senseitivity, not cool.