It’s hard to believe this iPod actually still works. Encased in a cube of resin, it weighs a ton and loses all of its portability, but can still be charged and remotely controlled since its dock is also in the cube. Just don’t try using the click wheel. Exploded iPod Still Works – Link [via]
Here’s an Instructable on upgrading the microdrive on your iPod Mini. Add More GB to your iPod Mini – Link Related: HOW TO – Turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod – Link
These iPod cases, made from cassette tape shells and 45 record vinyl, are commercial items, which cost US$45 each, but it’d be a cinch to replicate something similar, if you’d rather roll your own. 45 Nano Cases – [via] Link Related: HOW TO – Vinyl record table lamp – Link DIY Dali vinyl record clock […]
The iPhone’s headphone jack in recessed so that most 3rd party headphones can’t plug into it. But the hardware beyond the recession is apparently standard. To get at it, you can carve away the plastic housing to make it fit. Here, John Sullivan has cut the jack on his Etymotic ER-6 phones. Etymotic ER-6 iPhone […]
Binder clips have a 101 uses. Here’s one of them. (Not sure I’d want my gadget just hangin’ out there like that.) The Ridiculously Clever Dock – Link
At first it looked like it wasn’t going to be possible to use the newer iPods with Linux, but 36 hours after the story made the rounds online there’s now some code to get things working… Link.
This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they’re functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is […]
