Altoids tin tacklebox
If fishing is in your weekend plans, you can whip up this quickie Altoids tin tacklebox! It uses an old gift card and some popsicle sticks to make compartments and...
Posted by Becky Stern | Friday June 26th, 2009 4:26 PM
Altoids and tin cases
Minty kalimba
This Altoids tin electric kalimba appeals to me as a highly portable but still simple musical instrument, and you can plug it into an amp, too! Learn to make your...
Posted by Becky Stern | Monday June 15th, 2009 2:57 PM
Categories: Music | 2 Comments
Mint tin trickle charger
This Instructable shows you how to build a lighter-based 12v battery trickle charger made from a laptop power supply, a LM317T regulator, and an Altoids tin (and some other misc...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday March 9th, 2009 11:29 PM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
How-to Tuesday: Maker's Notebook & contest
This week I have 3 modifications of the Maker’s Notebook. I started out by adding a small pocket inside the book to keep a pen. Next, I added a snap...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Thursday January 8th, 2009 7:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, General | 4 Comments
Minty soldering jig
Bob Hickman, Minty Amp maker, sent us a howto on making a jig for small form factor soldering projects. I often have to solder up a bunch of PCBs that...
Posted by jstriegel | Thursday January 1st, 2009 7:47 PM
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Reader built fume extractor from the MAKE blog
One of my first builds for the MAKE blog was the mint tin fume extractor. I was hoping someone would make a version and post it on the web, and...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Sunday December 28th, 2008 10:10 AM
Categories: Electronics, Tools | 3 Comments
MAKE Project Tin button box
In one episode of the Make: television show I do an Input >> Arduino >> Output demonstration to explain how the microcontroller reads a button press and plays a light...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Saturday December 6th, 2008 5:02 PM
Categories: Arduino, General | 7 Comments
Pocket Synths by James Watt
James Watt, maker of the Solar Thereamin I build a while back, has another really cool project. This time he created 2 pocket synthesizers inspired by the Atari Punk Console...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 6:22 PM
Lunch box guitar
A link to this was posted in the comments to yesterday’s cigar box guitar post, but I thought it was cool enough to get its own item. Be sure to...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday July 10th, 2008 11:50 AM
Categories: Craft, Music | No Comments
Cigarette tin “boom” box
Tiny “boom” box, built from a Lucky Strikes tin, an old MP3 player, an LM1877n-9 amp chip, and some garage sale speaks. It’s dubbed the “Mobile Oppression Unit.” Can it...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 30th, 2008 5:03 PM
Categories: Electronics, Music | No Comments
Solar Theremin in an Altoids tin
James made another cool project. This time it’s a solar powered Theremin powered by the 1381 solar engine. You can buy a kit on his website, but he even included...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Thursday June 12th, 2008 5:12 PM
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YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box
I had a chance to tinker around with the new kit available from Adafruit Industries the YBox2 Kit – DIY Set-top box – very fun, you can make your own...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 9:16 AM
Categories: Electronics, Tools | 1 Comment
