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[djcfuzz]

Hi, I just completed my MintyBoost V3 kit the other night. It was easy and fun. While my soldering skills leave a little to be desired, especially with my old soldering iron that should probably be tossed along with some tip cleaner that is not very clean and some big gauge solder, well... with all that said, I had success, my multi-meter readings were good, etc. I jumped my inner USB 2&3 right away. I will say the kit is very clean and refined, great job, Lady Ada, thank you. So far, I have tested successfully with my LG Thrive phone, a USB Xmas tree, and a 4th gen iPod Touch. Then I was left with a silver box with a USB sticking out, so I needed to make it mine. First, I added some red vinyl pinstriping around the bottom, mostly to seal the metal under the USB but overall I like it. Next was the search for other stickers. While I had a bunch of different thoughts, I found these cool retro travel stickers that I think are perfect for $1 @ Walmart. Thanks again for a great design and a nice project. BTW, I do have lithiums in waiting once I burn through these rayovacs. Here are some pics...

[ifrpilot999]

Here is my LiPoly MintyBoost -- lots of fun to tinker together and works great! My college student niece will love it.

http://flic.kr/p/c7KkqW

[Longtrailahead]

So far, I just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying my new recently constructed Minty Boost USB charger. The entire process in placing my order, to final assembly of the kit was fast, simple, and quite easy! I found the detailed step-by-step instructions on the web site to be easy in understanding, as well as informative in other aspects surrounding this project too. Dubbed the "American Classic," my Minty Boost will see future usage whilst I'm away and out off on the beaten path somewhere, doing whatever serious adventurous athletic endeavor I currently might find myself on. Can't live without music y'all! To read and see some other photos of my building process, click on the provided link -

http://longtrailahead.blogspot.com/2012 ... arger.html

[dawning]

Here's mine.. Not sure I've got it working just yet. We'll see.

[heybales]

I just posted some new photos of a mintyboost kit that I made using a new box that I found.

Check it out at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heybales/s ... 2421564104

[TheKitty]

My Mintyboost project is at http://21stdigitalhome.blogspot.com/201 ... -game.html - a bit unconventional using it with the Adafruit LiPoly to power a 5 volt Arduino Esplora

I tried to post a picture but it was way too big. Can you pull one off the blog for the flickr pool? Thanks, Mike

[gelisob]

Here's "little" something I made, using information on the mintyboost 3.0 page, I wanted to make it myself and as an amateur I dont yet have stuff to make-bake-chemicals-magic PCB's so I bought one pre-made "lanes" off the shelf PCB and cut/saw/reroute necessary paths

As It's not mintyboost, I call it xmAAAboost, took some searching and I was lucky to find so suitable mint box
Added on/off switch and an indicator led to see if circuit is powered or not, it's wired pass 5k resistor so it draws really nothing. I'm not sure what's it idle power usage of the schematic/caps etc so i felt like complete cutoff button would be nice.
It's nice and small, just a little longer edge than the AAA batt as you can see, ~5x5x1.5cm.

Here are two pictures and youtube video of the making process

Youtube video, making of xmAAAboost.

box open

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complete, closed box

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hope you like it

[Disco Dan]

Finished this afternoon...

Fitted two LED's to an aluminium enclosure (the tin was just too small to fit solar charger as well!). One LED is a clear 'blue' that lights up when given external power (solar/mains). The other is an RGB LED which lights up green when charging the internal LiPo battery then blue when done.

Worked first time too!

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