Altoids case made from old iPod Shuffle

As a graphic artist, I like to store extra x-acto blades in a steel container for safety. Altoids containers are the best....but then what do you do with the Altoids?

Step 1 What you'll need:

X-acto knife
Altoids
dead shuffle
pliers
glue (not pictured)

Comments

[coolblue]

Trick question: Why would you like to ruin an iPod shuffle so you can put mints in it? A broken iPod shuffle can be sold on ebay or enywhere else:|

[vov35]

What do you mean ruin? this is the most functional apple product I've seen in my life.

[didgitalpunk]

this is very nice! id like to do that with my ipod mini but its too big :{

[Vissy]

i LOLed so damned hard...hahaha!

[app0]

Yes, LOL!

[officeblueprint]

next step idea buy the newest ipod shuffle 3rd gen and put that some where in there

[mr.mallow]

i think it could be dangerous..if you got mugged and the mugger stabbed you or broke ur arm..for a "shuffle" but really they just almost killed a guy for a few mints... just saying, dont brag lol

[cyrozap]

I think that would be a good slap-in-the-face for the mugger.

[Sazumo]

Ha!, IKR?! You've just committed a felony for the sake of an cool looking altoids container... I guess even with containers, looks can kill right?

[cantthinkof bettername]

who would mug someone for a 1st generation shuffle?

[lololzak]

lol right?

[cantthinkof bettername]

Well, I guess they're better than the new ones. haha

[lololzak]

LOL

[dtoma]

love it pure awsume

[Sypran]

oh man i like it! its the oposite of what everyone does.

[Thundertydus]

Mwhaha Touche! take that Altoids Ipod Case (No im not french and if you are no offense meant but i dislike being called french due to my vocabulary)

[baneat]

It's like a reverse instructable :)

[MisterMissanthrope]

wicked awesome, i also saw the picture in the comments of a regular ipod, i like that you can see the altoids behind the scree

[miols]

wow this is exactly the opposite of half of these instructables altoid tin everything and now what altoid containers?! make up ur mind boy!

[Digital_Anarchy]

a real challenge would be turn the ipod in to an altoids case, then rebuild the guts of the ipod in the now empty altoids tin.

[Nihal]

I have never opened up an ipod shuffle previous gen, nor this gen, but woudnt it be nice to put some thing smaller (not altoids) like a powder, which would come put when the shuffle switch changed position?

[struckbyanarrow]

all the druggies will be after that there apple crack holder hehe

[ryan w]

anybody knows similar sites as instructables.com

[struckbyanarrow]

wikihow.com

[Patented]

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[clonetrooper13]

who doesnt know kipkay!?

[jeffconnelly]

seconded

[damasta]

maybe you could change one of the switches to a dispenser (like you can lift up half of the indicator switch to throw out one altoid)

[loggerhead]

plz tell me that was a broken ipod shuffle :(.

[michaeldnash]

okay buddy get your winni v out of that ipod shuffle

[turner22]

r u a stencil artist?

[monkeybiker24]

i did that (my own way, sorry) and not only put altoids but anything, money, magnets (and made an ipod shuffle fridge magnet).

[gotclawz1]

i did the same thing a while back but i did it with an ipod nano

[egreen767]

first, they make electronics out of altoids containers. now, they make altoids containers out of electronics. talk about ironic.

[madmanmark]

Limor is gonna laugh at this. Art imitating art. Is that post-something?

[yawfle]

Well, it ain't exactly post-ironic, but probably post-everything-else... coming soon: the Shuffle Pez dispenser. Probably.

[lordkonstantin]

Now that's a genius idea. I might just have to work on that.

[Einsteins Circuitry]

Any one willing to do this to their iphone? :p

[Sunbanks]

That is really awesome! I like it.

[GorillazMiko]

wow, very cool! never thought i would see something like this, but i just did! amazing!