Nick Brenn and the Altoids flashlight

posted Oct 25, 2011

altoids flashlight Here's that Altoids tin flashlight that Union College student Nick Brenn talked about on the Anderson Cooper show Monday. [Daily Gazette]

The show has posted a video of Brenn explaining how to do it yourself (it's also embedded after the jump). But you can also buy a kit from Edmunds Scientific for $19.95.

Brenn came up with the idea for the flashlight as a high schooler in Pennsylvania. He seems to be quite the maker -- here are his profiles on Instructables and MAKE. He's on the crew team at Union. He gets up early. We'll all be working for him someday. If we're lucky.

photo: Edmunds Scientific

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tags: nerding out, people, Union

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Hack A Day has been posting Altoids hacks for years, this kid either read about them or just doesn't know it's old news

... said navic on Oct 25, 2011 at 12:07 PM | link

I don't get the appeal. Tell me how to spend $20 bucks to make a whistle out of an Altoids tin and I'm hooked.

... said Ron on Oct 25, 2011 at 12:27 PM | link

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