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Lithium battery packs reaching the end of their life usually have a lot of kick left in them. That's because they're made up of multiple cells and it only takes the failure of one to bork the entire battery. One of the most interesting examples we've heard of this is in the Toyota Prius, but that's a story for another time. In this case, [Mika] wanted to resurrect the battery from his IBM Thinkpad … [Read more...]
[Jenn's] family is a single-car household. Because of this, it's a little more difficult to get a jump start when the headlights run down the battery. Not wanting to ask the neighbors for help, her husband [Richard] decided to come up with his own solution. Rummaging through the parts on hand, [Richard] went with his old friend Sonic the Hedgehog. He used two 12-volt, 1 amp Sega Genesis power … [Read more...]
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