This weekend, you’ll learn how to make a Minty Boost usb charger and a Daisy mp3 player. After you put these together you can put them into customized cases. I made my charger fit into a plastic dinosaur!

Then I soldered up my Daisy MP3 player and put it into a laser tag case, complete with working buttons on the gun that control volume. The trigger makes it go to the next track! Photos here – Link.

Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone!

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If you want to build these and/or give them as gifts, order them this weekend so they ship in time for the holidays.

Kits featured:

MAKE: Daisy MP3 player, open source MP3 player (in a Laser tag case, NICE!) – Link.

MintyBoost, charge USB chargable devices – Link.