he did something about and built a phone charger out of parts he had kicking around. The charger is quite simple. The user cranks on a DC motor and the output power goes into a LM2596-based step ...

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In the end, several hundred quid were saved, and the DIY charger does the job just as well as the commercial unit. A great hack indeed! And while these aren’t common, we did cover another Open ...