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I bought a battery from the local Home Depot for $20 (look in the outdoor lighting aisle). It is 6V and provides 6.5AH. You can get it cheaper at places like batterymart.com, but I was in a hurry and the shipping on seal-lead acid batteries is not cheap. The higher the amp-hours (6.5AH in this case), the longer you will be able to run your USB device.
Now for the voltage – USB uses 5V DC. I needed to drop the voltage from 6V to 5V, preferably without too much loss. There are three main options: voltage divider using resistors, non-switching regulator, and a switching regulator. In the case of the voltage divider, the resistors basically turn the extra voltage into heat, and they would need to be rated for higher power than the typical $0.01 resistors. Switching regulators, or DC-to-DC converters, are much higher efficiency, but are more costly. Also, I couldn’t find one that would work at Radio Shack, so I went with a non-switching regulator: the 7805.
The 7805 regulator will take voltages higher than 5V and hold them at 5V, also allowing up to 1A of current. While that’s much more than is needed, it gives a nice buffer. A regulator has three legs: 1) input, 2) ground, and 3) output, where the ground leg is shared between the input and output. The input comes from the positive side of the battery, the output goes to the 5V pin on a USB connector, and the negative side of the battery along with the GND pin on a USB connector both connect to the ground. Since the 7805 drops the difference in voltage by heat, adding a heatsink to the regulator might be needed, depending on how much power your device will draw.
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Once the soldering is done, connect the battery and use a multimeter to check the output on the USB connector (voltage across pin 1 and pin 4 should be +5VDC). Then you can freely connect a USB device and you’re set. You could stop here and be done. Since I wanted this for travel and didn’t want exposed wires, I took it a step further: enter hot glue.
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