This is adorable: a tiny charcoal BBQ grill using an Altoids Sours tin, two metal computer fan guards, and some sheet metal screws for legs. It looks like it fits one regular-sized briquette. As one ...

Ken Kirkpatrick won ReadyMade's MacGyver Challenge with these mini-speakers he made out of a couple of tins of Altoids, some headphones, some playing cards into a pair of mini-speakers. We heard they ...

Transforming an Altoids tin into a functional cyberdeck demonstrates the possibilities of compact computing within constrained spaces. Exercising Ingenuity details the process of fitting a Raspberry ...

Part of the fun of doing something yourself is the fact that, sometimes, you get to use things that you might not normally think about using. Doing it yourself means, sometimes, more than anything ...

The next time you open an Altoids tin only to find that it's empty, rest assured that even if there are no mints inside, there's a lot of something else—DIY potential! With plenty of imagination and a ...

We’ve seen our fair share of Altoids mint tin projects and it seems the tin… can always house another interesting project. This time [MWAGNER] managed to make his long time idea of having a computer ...

If your cubicle is looking a bit sterile, and regular plants seem a bit too ordinary to fix it, try growing a miniature garden out of an Altoids tin. When it comes to using Altoids tins to liven up a ...

The science experimenters at TKOR construct a compact yet powerful mini catapult using an Altoids tin and simple mechanics.