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thedailywhat: DIY of the Day: “Close Encounters of the Curiously Minty Kind” — For his “Get The LED Out” contest entry, Richard Dreyfuss enthusiast AndyGadget recreated the musical mothership from Spielberg’s classic sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind using an Altoids tin, a PicAxe microcontroller, and a bunch of colorful LEDs. [via.] When was the last time someone re-used your packaging for anything, much less something this cool?  Do you think Altoids could have anticipated anything like this when they decided to make the metal tin such an important part of their brand?

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DIY of the Day: “Close Encounters of the Curiously Minty Kind” — For his “Get The LED Out” contest entry, Richard Dreyfuss enthusiast AndyGadget recreated the musical mothership from Spielberg’s classic sci-fi film Close Encounters of the Third Kind using an Altoids tin, a PicAxe microcontroller, and a bunch of colorful LEDs.

[via.]

When was the last time someone re-used your packaging for anything, much less something this cool?  Do you think Altoids could have anticipated anything like this when they decided to make the metal tin such an important part of their brand?

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