Nicola from Italy just sent in his hack of the IKEA SUNNAN solar lamp so that it can charge his electronics. He increases the power to the lamp’s batteries using Voltaic’s 2 Watt solar panel and uses Adafruit’s Mintyboost to up the output to USB.

Ikea Phone Charger

If you want to read instructions in English. You can see the original IKEA Solar Hack by Phil Stearns here.

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