If you happen to find yourself looking to remake your leftover Altoids tins, the company that makes the mints says the creative bar is a whole lot higher than an ashtray or a trinket box. Earlier ...

This is a simple build meant to fit in an Altoids tin, so you’re not getting a whole lot of hardware here. There’s a battery, there’s a boost circuit, and there’s a single chip, an ATtiny84.

For decades, Altoids--the "curiously strong" mints--have come in a simple tin box, just like dozens of other mints. Yet Altoids tins have a singular place in modern culture, a place that lends ...