So. The UK government in their infinite wisdom have kindly granted me cash money to work on an ESP IoT solar tracking reflector project to make renewable energy direct from the source more cost effective than fossil fuels.
Besides being able to heat SLMS for free we could help save the world. I’m looking for an embedded C++ software engineer, an electronics guru and a fusion 360 CAD guru to join our team and make awesome things happen. If you’re interested please get in touch 
cheers
Vince
It feels like reinventing the wheel, they built sun following panels in the early 90s without cad and too much programming. Tracking a solar objects is pretty easy with 2 servos and a simple drive. An actually built array with a fix one drom the same components to be tested at X location for a year worth more than a smell and colorful cad model.
Thanks George
Yep similar concept to the solid body heliostat in terms of we track the sun and redirect photons, though it’s a completely different design, and they will setup completely automatically, plus do some very cool stuff with just an led and a light sensor, including build a 3d colour map of it’s surroundings.
I see. I don’t get the point of building a map of the location it’s running, it makes sense on a rover roaming another planet. With automatic setup you mean you pull the unit on a pallet to a flat surface connect it up and it unfolds itself?
No pallet, no pulling, it weighs less than 2kg as it’s very lightweight low cost parts that would normally be ripped to shreds in a storm, but as it has IoT it can see bad weather approaching and close before it’s damaged. So costs less than fossil fuels (this is why we got funding) and is very easy to use (hence the map, just tap on a 3d map takes a second so a nice user experience).
Less than 2 kgs? How much power it can produce? In my opinion for a solar relay output and optionally storing the current is more important than fancy extra features.
Over 1kW power. So in UK over a year it can provide over 1MWh of energy, so at 10p per kWh it can save around £100 a year, or if it lasts 10 to 20 years 1 or 2 thousand pounds… not bad for a few bits for a pound 
this is why we got the funding. We just need to finalise and realise the design.
Sounds like the moving part isn’t functioning as a solar panel, but rather reflecting light towards an existing solar panel so I guess weight isn’t so much of an issue
That sound good for a 2kg unit, might worth make pallet sized ones too
exactly, nicely put Sean 
Yep eventually it could be. The current design let’s individuals instal the unit themseleves without needing a professional though, so this drops a lot of barriers to entry.
I can give a hand building tha hardware, I don’t know too much if the software side, but I can build hardware.
That’s very kind of you. I’ll PM you my number so we can have a chat. Thanks for coming around