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Do you have garbage collection enabled? That could help with memory issues. If not, pop this into your boot.py:

Or maybe you just discovered what most solar developers know: trackers are an almost complete waste of time. You can pay for a lot of fixed racking + extra modules for the price of trackers, and you avoid the maintenance aspect. Now come on, hobby projects are never a waste of time :) ...but in all...

That YouTube idea is very neat. It depends on how you define "simple". It's arguable that closed loop designs are overkill as you're tracking something whose position is known at any time. An open loop design will point in the right direction even if the sky is completely overcast. Azimuth rotates ...

Neat - but what are those shades for? If you shade even a tiny part of a module, you'll get near zero current. Some commercial trackers use two cells about the size you're using, mounted at 90° to one another, and do some iteration to find the optimum sun value. They use to get really confused by s...

I guess when you're bored enough, you'll build your own toys. https://github.com/viiveli/solarTracker Had some solar cells and a supercapacitor module lying unused and since I have nothing but time to spend at this point of my life I decided to build something: Autonomous photovoltaic energy harvest...