Hack gives Minty Boost to an iPod battery

by Paul Miller, posted May 31st 2006 at 1:02PM

Another hack in the grand tradition of Altoids tin usage, the Minty Boost hack from from Ladyada is a new external iPod battery pack that uses AA batteries and some design smarts to about double the battery life of your iPod. The last time we saw an Altoids-based charger for the iPod it was running off of some 9v batteries, making the hack a simple one, but not very efficient. By using cheap and available AAs, the Minty Boost should make quite the addition to your collection of iPod accessories -- as long as you can manage to follow along at home with Ladyada's detailed instructions. Luckily, she's quite thorough, and even has a kit available to make things even easier. Plus a little bit of fresh breath never hurt anybody.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

Tags: altoids, battery charger, BatteryCharger, hack, ipod

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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tim @ Mar 9th 2007 10:01PM

thats cool, and must be cheap, must try.

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WizardK14 @ Feb 12th 2009 3:50PM

i like

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