Most definitely very cheap to buy prebuilt, I assume it charges the LiPo inside so you could use it w/o sun?
Building it yourself kind of gives you that "I MADE IT!" feeling.. Once I whipped out my Altoids charger during school one day to help a teacher charge up his phone, everyone stared in awe..
Kinda makes you "cool". :P
you can charge it by usb to
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