Battery Chargers

An #oshw project I’d like to see in the world: a decent 4 or 8 individual battery cell charger with support for different battery sizes and chemistries. There’s a bit of somewhat ok-ish closed hardware out there but they all seem to be missing at least something. Displays are usually some fancy gauge thingies no one really needs. Or they don’t support nimh batteries. Or other weird stuff. My favorite charger is the IMAX B6, but that’ll only ever do one battery at a time 😕

• Mastodon Thread

Existing projects

• https://lygte-info.dk/project/Charger%20UK.html
  • Only one battery, no display, requires PC to operate
  • But Arduino based and simple enough, so maybe a good base project
  • Supports different chemistries (NiMH, LiIon, LiFePO4)