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Hand powered USB charger from hacked IKEA flashlight

Saturday, July 19th, 2014

Werner sends this handy hack he found at IKEAHackers. Giovanni Gentile devised this simple hack which mods an IKEA Ljusa hand powered flashlight into a USB charger. "The procedure was simple, it was enough to eliminate some resistors and use a capacitor sufficient to handle the charge given by the...

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  • Max: Seems like an unexpectedly violent way to remove the chip indeed. A hot air station should of course do the job just fine, but in...
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