So, it happened, with little fanfare, and no linking, The NY Times, and NYTimes.com released the Altoids mod story (free account required) featuring me along with some other great Altoids modders, including that genius MIT girl, Limor Fried, who built an MP3 player from scratch in an Altoids tin. My battery doesn’t seem so great […]
I had a surreal moment on Saturday afternoon. I can’t say it changed my life, but it certainly made me take stock. As you may know, the NY Times has taken some interest in my little Altoids iPod Battery pack project, which, I can only imagine, is about to open some doors for me. The […]
I received and responded to one of the greatest emails ever tonight. It’s not the kind that I usually respond to publicly. Usually I respond to some idiot, and rip them apart for all of your enjoyment. This one was kind of touching to me, and I felt compelled to help this young girl with […]
After receiving much attention and many comments about the last version of the Altoids battery pack, decided to do something a little different for the next version. I was inspired by Griffin Technology’s TuneJuice emergency battery pack for the iPod. The elgant, little, white pack provides up to 4 hours of power to the iPod […]
Many of you who follow my stupidity regularly may have noticed the awesome response I got from the nerd community over the Altoids iPod Battery Pack. As I described before, the tech blog community embraced the project and I was featured on boingboing, engadget, hackaday, and others. A short while later, what you don’t know, […]
I am pretty psyched that BoingBoing, Hack-A-Day, and Engadget all picked up on my Altoids iPod Battery pack “hack” and now I have tons of traffic. If things are slowed down a little bit I appologize.
Many commenters have had many great suggestions so far, and I plan on making some changes to make the […]
I got some new Altoids tins, borrowed a Dremel tool from Mitchell, and purchased brand new firewire connectors from NTC. Here’s my second, cleaner, tighter, much nicer attempt at a sweet external battery pack for iPod. Once, again, credit goes to Drew Perry for the design and inspiration. His is made inside a deck of […]
Hack-A-Day is a great new site from the people over at Weblogs Inc. (Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq…) They basically post at least one hardware hack each day. Of course, they link to other people’s good work, but it is a really nice compilation of old and new hardware hacks they I have lost track of over […]