As part of our ongoing blog updates, we will be bringing you a featured Community Project, focused on new and innovative technology, especially open source hardware.

Our first feature is surrounding energy harvesting – taking very tiny power sources and converting them to useful applications.

Bob over at Ambient Sensors has shown how to use the 40mV-500mV LTC3108 boost converter being powered from a Peltier junction.

You can also find his open source design on Github.

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