{"id":8653,"date":"2005-11-04T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2005-11-04T17:11:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T17:11:20","slug":"altoids-gadget-charger-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8653","title":{"rendered":"Altoids Gadget Charger Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/altoidsCharge.jpg\">There seems to be no end to the wacky and wonderful Altoids tin hacks floating around cyberspace. Few people know this, but it was an Altoids-tin-as-project-box that was the original inspiration behind Street Tech. I saw a how-to project for a phone phreaker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_box\" target=\"new\">Red Box<\/a> &#8212; I think it was in Danny Drennan&#8217;s awesome &#8217;90s zine Inquisitor &#8212; that was housed in an Altoids tin. This got me thinking about Gibson&#8217;s famous &#8220;the street finds its own uses for things&#8221; and the idea of a site that chronicled the growth of such trickle-down &#8220;street tech.&#8221; We still have an enduring fascination for this type of tech appropriation and the sort of techie folk art seen in things like these prevalent Altoids hacks. Which brings us to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> Aaron Dunlap&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarondunlap.com\/index.php?content=electronics\/usba\" target=\"new\">9V USB Battery Charger Kit<\/a>. This project, for building a simple 9V battery-based recharger for iPods, cell phones, and any other battery-powered gadgets, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/ipod.hackaday.com\/entry\/1234000270029372\/\" target=\"new\">around for a while<\/a>, but Aaron has created an inexpensive kit with step-by-step instructions (US$9.50) for those who are too lazy to track down all the parts. You provide the Altoids tin (or other project box).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be no end to the wacky and wonderful Altoids tin hacks floating around cyberspace. Few people know this, but it was an Altoids-tin-as-project-box that was the original inspiration behind Street Tech. I saw a how-to project for a phone phreaker&#8217;s Red Box &#8212; I think it was in Danny Drennan&#8217;s awesome &#8217;90s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Altoids Gadget Charger Kit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}