Hmmmmm. Minty

January 23, 2005 4:13 AM

Do not eat MintyMP3. Cool DIY mp3 player.
posted by punilux (14 comments total)

cough
posted by Dean Keaton at 4:25 AM on January 23, 2005

And its friend the minty amp .
posted by stp123 at 7:20 AM on January 23, 2005

That's cool. I wonder if the "Do not eat" warning was inspired by the iPod Shuffle page, or if they had it first.
posted by milovoo at 8:27 AM on January 23, 2005

Dude, of course Ada had it first. I know this engineer, and I am utterly shocked that you could imply that she is even the slightest bit unoriginal.
posted by breath at 9:15 AM on January 23, 2005

I like the Altoids battery pack for the iPod.
posted by birdherder at 11:01 AM on January 23, 2005

Awe-inspring.
posted by tommyc at 11:15 AM on January 23, 2005

You can also make pinhole cameras (aka Pintoids) out of mint tins.
posted by matildaben at 1:32 PM on January 23, 2005

I think I could actually follow along with this and possibly construct it.

Surface mount chips = no, you can't.
posted by kindall at 4:01 PM on January 23, 2005

Surface mount chips aren't impossible, they're just hard. I mean, Ada did it by hand.

Also, I've seen someone solder a tiny wire to each and every pin of some hundred-pin TQFP which was about the size of a thumbnail. Not on a circuit board. Loose wires. If that's hand-doable, anything is hand-doable.
posted by breath at 5:57 PM on January 23, 2005

I made one of those minty amps a few months ago. It sounds, predictably, a bit tinny.
posted by obloquy at 6:03 PM on January 23, 2005

You could also just cheat by putting an iPod Shuffle in an Altoids tin.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:24 PM on January 23, 2005

I'm totally building that amp.
posted by dong_resin at 7:45 PM on January 23, 2005

What's so hard about soldering surface mount chips, that a little diazepam can't help? :)


(when soldering under a magnifying glass, you actually *can* see your heartbeat at the tip and it can sometimes be tricky to line things up.)

Knowing that... I did decide to go without my caffeine the morning I started soldering away at my iBook's motherboard surface mount resistors... (overclocked about 3 years ago, and still running strong -- fanless and all) :)
posted by just a monkey at 8:41 PM on January 23, 2005

personally, I'm a fan of the 8-track format. MP3s are so small, I keep losing them in the car's upholstery.
posted by nanojath at 9:22 PM on February 22, 2005