Juicer 9000 I don't know if many people are like me, but I am constantly forgetting to charge my cellphone over night. So if you are ever in class or at work and need some juice for your cellphone, I give you the Juicer 9000. It's a simple little device with a 9V battery inside of an Altoids tin. Check it out.

Inspiration:
I got the inspiration from all the chargers people are making for their iPods. Since I do not own an iPod, mine obviously is for cellphones. I originally saw the iPod charger on Chris DiClerico's website. Chris' site mentions UnixMonkey's site as creating the iPod charger before him, and from there you can see the original author who posted the schematic for the iPod charger.

I take no responsibility for any damage this may cause to your phone! <
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The Juicer 9000:
Components...
- Altoids Chewing Gum tin
- 9V battery
- 9V snap connector (RadioShack (5pk) cat #270-324)
- 24 guage wire, about 6" (RadioShack (35ft) cat #278-857)
- DC power connector ("A" Adaptaplug, RadioShack cat #273-1704)
- Hot glue gun
- Soldering iron, if you don't already have one (RadioShack cat #64-2802B)

Soldering and Gluing:
First off, thanks to RadioShack for not labeling the DC connector properly. If you hold the tip facing you and the two prongs facing down, the one on the left represents the tip prong. You may want to mark this as it is important.

- The first step is to solder the positive wire color you have chosen to the tip prong you determined above (cellphone chargers have positive tips). Then proceed to solder the negative end to other prong as well.

- Cover the soldering you just did in hot glue to pre
vent it from accidentally discharging somewhere.

- Poke a hole to fit the 2 wires through the Altoids tin.

- Run the wires into the tin and solder the postive wire color to the red wire of the 9V snap connector. Solder the negative wire color to the black wire of the 9V snap connector.

- Cover both wire junctions with hot glue to prevent discharging.

- Plug it into your phone and hope it doesn't blow up.

Pictures:

The Juicer 9000 closed


The Juicer 9000 open


My hole poking skills


The Juicer 9000 in action


Additional Info:
I plan on making a newer version soon that will look nicer and work on more phones. I am going to try and reduce the volt
age to 5V so it is detected by more phones. It currently has been tested on the Sanyo 8100 and the LG LX5450. The Samsung A680 only makes a noise when you unplug the Juicer 9000, so I do not know if it is actually charging. Hopefully version 2 will fix that.

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