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Charge an iPod with an Onion

Use electrolytes to charge your iPod.

  • By Nathan
  • Category: Music, Science
  • Time Required: 30 to 60 mins
  • Difficulty: Easy
Charge an iPod with an Onion

Use electrolytes to charge your iPod.

Steps

Step #1: Find an onion.

NextCharge an iPod with an Onion
  • Purchase a medium-sized onion.

Step #2: Soak in the Gatorade.

NextCharge an iPod with an Onion
  • Punch 2 holes in the onion. Then pour two cups of Gatorade or Powerade and soak the onion in it for 30 minutes.

Step #3: Charge the iPod.

Charge an iPod with an Onion
  • After 30 minutes take it out and dry it off. Then plug the end of the USB cable into the onion. It will take a minute for it to work.

Conclusion

Fun project and you learn and get music from it.

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2 Responses to Charge an iPod with an Onion

  1. Gary on said:

    That sounds more like an April Fools prank than the normal Make projects.

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  2. soraxroxas on said:

    mythbusters proof it was fake

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