Power Arduino with a cellphone

Step 4 Test it

Put a charged battery into the cellphone. Plug the connector into the arduino. The arduino should run on its own fine. If arduino starts making funny noises and keeps resetting, and the cellphone keeps trying to charge itself; try a different battery or plug the arduino in to charge the cellphone for a while and see if that fixes it. If that still doesn't fix it, you'll just have to unplug the charging connector from the cellphone when running the arduino off the battery. You may also want to cut out a niche in the back panel of the cellphone to put the wires through so you can put that back on the cellphone. Congratulations you now have a poor mans lithium backpack. If you really want you might be able to connect all the extra batteries in parallel for more battery life. And if you're really ambitious you could probably figure out some way of connecting the arduino to the cellphone so the arduino can text you about its mood or make prank calls or something

Comments

[aderistic]

that´s was cool

[Xumahare]

You'll have to show me this sometime, zimirken. Just don't ignore me next time you see me, okay?

[asrivera]

I am intruiged! You will have to show me this!

[JamesRPatrick]

Welcome to Instructables!

[zimirken]

Thank You