{"id":8977,"date":"2006-06-02T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2006-06-02T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T17:40:18","slug":"ladyadas-mintyboost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"LadyAda&#8217;s MintyBoost!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/mintyBoost.jpg\">The amazing LadyAda, hardware hacker extraordinaire, has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/ex\/i\/1686FF3E41011029AC23001143E7E506\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"new\">extremely detailed Instructables<\/a> on her new, improved take on the ubiquitous Altoids tin USB device charger. She&#8217;s improved the circuit to make far more efficient use of the juice in two AA batts. The Instructables is far more than a how-to. She goes through the entire process of tackling an electronics problem, designing a solution, specing the parts, designing a PCB and getting it mass produced, assembling the project, testing, etc. Reading through this is quite a learning experience. She&#8217;s also making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=10&#038;products_id=14\" target=\"new\">kit<\/a> available in her store. You can also just buy just the PCB, if you already have the other components. Nice job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amazing LadyAda, hardware hacker extraordinaire, has posted an extremely detailed Instructables on her new, improved take on the ubiquitous Altoids tin USB device charger. She&#8217;s improved the circuit to make far more efficient use of the juice in two AA batts. The Instructables is far more than a how-to. She goes through the entire &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LadyAda&#8217;s MintyBoost!&#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-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","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=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}