{"id":468,"date":"2008-01-26T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/01\/mintyboost_x_2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T16:40:35","slug":"mintyboost_x_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/01\/mintyboost_x_2\/","title":{"rendered":"MintyBoost x 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/2008\/01\/26\/mintyboost-two-teds-robot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mintyboost-two-teds-robot.jpg\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/2008\/01\/26\/mintyboost-two-teds-robot-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.fiveforks.com\/ted\/blog\/archive\/2007\/building_the_mintyboost.html\">Ted&#8217;s experience<\/a>, I ordered two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/mintyboost\/\">MintyBoost<\/a> kits. The girls will often bring their iPods on trips, running out of power because they had not planned ahead. Now they don&#8217;t have to plan ahead, because we can slip some of our rechargeable batteries into our MintyBoost kits and they are set. (We always keep 4 double-A batteries charged for use with our digital cameras.)<\/p>\n<p>This project was just as fun as Ted describes, and thanks to Ted&#8217;s post, there were no frustrating moments. And of course it helped that Ted loaned me the tools. His &#8220;robot&#8221; third hand is shown in the attached photo displaying the two finished MintyBoosts.<\/p>\n<p>Claire enjoyed helping. She put the tiny capacitors, resistors, etc. into the circuit board. Better eyes and smaller fingers than mine. The only &#8220;improvement&#8221; I can suggest is the step I took putting a rounded-corner piece of duct tape in the bottom to help the circuit board from touching metal. The padded tape would likely suffice, but the duct tape felt like a good precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Ted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Ted&#8217;s experience, I ordered two MintyBoost kits. The girls will often bring their iPods on trips, running out of power because they had not planned ahead. Now they don&#8217;t have to plan ahead, because we can slip some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2008\/01\/mintyboost_x_2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}