The controlled vibrating mints tin

Today, I will show you how to make a mint tin that vibrates and/or lights up. This would be a great thing to trick your friends with, simply put it on a table, hide somewhere, and when they reach for it, make it vibrate. Its so hilarious it never gets old.

Step 1 Materials and tools

For this project, you will need some tools and materials. chances are you have all of them lying about somewhere.

Materials:
-1 27mhz mini RC car and controller (or 49mhz, it doesn't matter)
-1 49mhz mini RC car and controller (This is optional for the light, this could be 27mhz , but you can only have one of each frequency)
-Super glue or hot glue, anything other than a glue stick
-Electrical tape (to prevent short-circuits)
-2 LR44 or AG13 button cell batteries. (or any two that equal 3v)
-Patience
-A mints tin. altoids would work best.

Tools:
-Solering iron
-Hot glue gun
-Screwdrivers (if you choose to change up the controller)
-A little electronics knowledge

Comments

[gavras]

can you solder the antenna on the mints body?

[zack247]

you could, but you wouldn't get as good reception. right now i have the antenna sticking out of the tin, and taped on the top to keep it disguised