iTrip for iPod nano – neat hack…
I really like Griffin’s iPod accessories, mostly because I think they have the best hackers. The new iPod nano iTrip looks like an excellent piece of engineering, but if you look close at the screen they’re not only use the FM add-on in dock mode (screen says disconnect) – the image which is normally a blinking O with a line through it is replaced with a Griffin logo. Digging in the firmware you find these things, but they’re doing this via the dock connector. Nice hack. I hope to take one apart soon. [via] Link.
Idealog writes “Frustrated that Apple has yet to deliver a display-capable remote for iTunes, I decided to use VNC and the Palm TX to come up with my own solution.” [
Here’s a PDF you can print out and construct your own iPod nano out of paper. The site is in Spanish, but it’s pretty easy to figure out what needs to be done, and it’s actual size too! 
The goal of the motion-based iPod remote control was to design and build a remote control for the iPod that responds to a user’s motion. An accelerometer is used to detect the motion of a user. A microprocessor then interprets these movements and sends the appropriate commands to the iPod via its remote control port. [
Instructions, on the web and in PDF format, for making your own iPod Shuffle armband for about $4 (compared to $30 for an official version). You need to buy some elastic, velcro, a medium-thick rubberband, and superglue. The velcro is easy. The elastic comes in different weights… 
These look amazing! These are remote iPod speakers I scratch-built for my wife’s iPod shuffle. It’s all scientific glass and aluminium construction. The sub-woofer is an inverted glass dome, and a fresnel lens from a rail-car. The guts of the thing is borrowed from a stock computer amp, whilst the speakers themselves are Apple Pro’s. 
Kraft is offering up over 100 recipes that you can download and put on your iPod and read using the notes function. If you don’t like Kraft stuff you could always just substitute your own ingredients or if you have a ton of great recipes make your own iPod notes (see our 