This may not be as hard as it sounds; many current USB devices are 3.3v or less internally, regulated down from the 5v from USB. Even then sounds tough though, especially if you can't find some spare wires of some sort. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
More likely in the 21st century:
Shipwrecked on a desert island with a GPS but dead batteries.
Come up with a way to power a USB 5v device.
At 02:55 PM 7/31/2012, Dave Dyer wrote:
The responses were all "duh! You press the 'sin' key! ...So since we can do that,
Yes, but suppose you were shipwrecked on a desert island with nothing but a sextant, a digital watch, a slide rule, and ONE bottle you could cast into the sea with your latitude and longitude written on it.
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