Using solar panels as a camera #CelebratePhotography #SolarPower
This data scientist is able to create some awesome images using his solar panels.
Via BoingBoing:
Jeroen Boeye is a data scientist who was parsing the power output of his panels, and noticed that they were influenced — as you’d expect — by the trees near his house, which got in the way of direct sunlight.
That made him wonder: Could you use the solar panels’ output as an imaging signal? Or rather, can you use your panels to effectively take a photograph of the world around it?
Turns out you can! After some very clever crunching of his data using R, Boeye produced this dataviz …
