For Christmas, I decided to build my sister a Minty Boost, a little device made out of a circuit board, a few little electronic devices, and two AA batteries that will charge nearly any device that can be charged by USB 5V power and it’s all housed inside an Altoids gum tin.
It was fun to learn to put this thing together. I think there’s something like 30 joints to solder on the circuit board. Something I really hadn’t done before. So I started the project by starting a different project entirely. I purchased a little kit that would power two LEDs with a 9V battery. The two potentiometers you see in the video control the rate of flashing on the device. I think it’s kinda neat.
In a roundabout way, yes it was from MAKE Magazine. I think it first appeared on Instructables (with a terrific write-up, I might add: it goes through the entire process from concept to design to prototyping to redesign to kitting to construction; it may be the best single instructable). Then it got picked up by the MAKE Blog and I think it appeared in the magazine.
I need to get a subscription to MAKE and probably CRAFT too.
I’ve totally seen this before. Was it off of MAKE?
— Whitney 01/01/2007 03:05 AM #
In a roundabout way, yes it was from MAKE Magazine. I think it first appeared on Instructables (with a terrific write-up, I might add: it goes through the entire process from concept to design to prototyping to redesign to kitting to construction; it may be the best single instructable). Then it got picked up by the MAKE Blog and I think it appeared in the magazine.
I need to get a subscription to MAKE and probably CRAFT too.
— Daniel Beck 01/02/2007 12:58 PM #