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08-03-12 | 11:59 AM

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ItsJustMe

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Originally Posted by ks1g

How handy are you with a soldering iron? You can build a "MintyBoost" from a kit by adafruit;

FWIW, you can buy these off of eBay for < $4 shipped, with a nice plastic case. I have a few of them. One caveat, when using rechargable batteries, these will DESTROY rechargables because they run the batteries dead flat, which is very bad for rechargables. It's exactly what you want it to do with alkalines though.

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