Solar MintyBoost
posted Jul 10th 2010 7:00am by Devlin Thynefiled under: cellphones hacks, handhelds hacks, iphone hacks, ipod hacks
We first wrote about the MintyBoost back in 2006. Today, Adafruit has created a tutorial for making a solar powered MintyBoost. Using a MintyBoost, a solar panel, LiPo battery and a charger, they built on their Solar LiPoly tutorial. They fed the power tap output of the LiPoly charger into the battery input of the MintyBoost to perform the voltage step-up for USB devices. Based on an instructable that used SparkFun parts, this tutorial shows how to use parts that are available from one source. We hear that there will be some evolution of the MintyBoost coming down the line that will including charging capabilities.
Hi,
A great project ! I did one a few months ago. Very useful on sunny days.
http://www.equinoxefr.org/post/2010/01/24/chargeur-solaire-pour-gadgets-usb-telephone-gps/ (in french)
I can power smartphone, iphone and my Zi8 pocket camcorder.