{"id":3680,"date":"2009-05-04T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:08:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T06:23:38","slug":"minty-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/minty-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Minty Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minty Boost is a small, make-it-yourself, battery-powered charger for USB devices, built into an Altoids gum tin. The tin is not absolutely necessary to the device&#8217;s operations, but it protects the works, makes the charger portable, and looks great. Minty Boost runs on common AA batteries (I use rechargeables), so it&#8217;s easy to use on the road. I enjoy that I can boost the charge on my iPod without having to surrender a USB port on my laptop. According to inventor, Limor Fried (aka &#8220;Lady Ada&#8221;), a MintyBoost will run an iPod 2.5 times longer than a 9V USB charger. Minty Boost is well-known in the world of open-source, DIY technology, but obscure in the mainstream, because Fried does not sell them pre-assembled. Instead she offers fairly-priced kits, as well as free parts lists and DIY instructions on her web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/mintyboost\/make.html\">ladyada.net<\/a>. Sometimes you can find assembled Minty Boosts for sale on the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.ladyada.net\/viewtopic.php?f=15&#038;t=3591\">forums<\/a> for a slight markup. I was lucky enough to receive mine as a gift from my boyfriend, whose soldering skills far surpass my own.<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"6195\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"mintyboost2.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/mintyboost2.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIY, portable USB-charger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}