Hello, dear reader:

Greetings from the Montgomery IEEE chapter! As the secretary and puzzlemaster of the group, it is my honor to detail the successful completion of our first electrical engineering project. Indeed, our intrepid group has accomplished what many once thought impossible: we’ve created a functional (and marginally useful(!)) electronic device. I can’t speak for us all, but I think the project went exceptionally smoothly, and the only injuries sustained were minor!

So please, let me take you on a journey, as IEEE makes a…

Haha, no, charming and whimsical whiteboard acronym, the S.P.R.E.E. we’re talking about is a Solar Photovoltaic Renewable Electron Encapsulator (learn to build your own here)! It harnesses the power of a super-massive, churning mass of hot plasma – and lets you charge your little netbook!

Our stalwart leader Sunny researches how to put all this stuff together

With components in hand and our goal in mind, we set about constructing the S.P.R.E.E.:

Taking our time and soldering connections. The battery will be the receptacle for the sun's glorious power

Connections are finished; it's time to put it all in the box.

The crown jewel of the project, the exterior solar panel.

I.E.E.E. chapter-member Kit approves of the finished project.

Since the construction of the S.P.R.E.E. was so expedient, the group even had time to plan our next project, a semi-autonomous blimp device that will surely have the group explore the “electronics” pillar of IEEE. Hopefully that project ends up as edifying as this one was.

Tim