iPod breakout dock

posted Dec 22nd 2005 11:00am by Eliot
filed under: ipod hacks

breakout dock

Since the time it was first featured on MAKE, Steve Chapman has continued to develop his iPod breakout dock. The dock provides all of the possible connections that could be made through the 30-pin connector. Of interest is the iPod’s serial interface. I had seen a break down of the control codes before, but Steve has taken the time to develop a serial application that he can use to test the different commands. Now that he knows a little more about the interface he’s started programming a microcontroller to use it.

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14 Responses to iPod breakout dock

the dentist says:

December 22, 2005 at 11:39 am

first post alright

this is very interesting… hope to see more hacking projects soon utilizing this

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strider_mt2k says:

December 22, 2005 at 11:45 am

Very nice work!

Hack _everything_!

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nate mc says:

December 22, 2005 at 3:52 pm

Anyone know the resistor needed to get the 5G ipod into Record mode?

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carpespasm says:

December 22, 2005 at 5:58 pm

the site keeps crashing firefox 1.5 for me

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ez says:

December 22, 2005 at 7:11 pm

Same here, crashy.

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Steve says:

December 23, 2005 at 1:58 am

I can’t figure it out. I eliminated anything that caused a console warning in Firefox. It could be the link formatting. Any help would be most appreciated.

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theotherme says:

December 24, 2005 at 8:45 am

you guys need to turn off adblock tabs, it was happening to me for a couple weeks before i figured it out

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Rome says:

December 29, 2005 at 11:01 pm

It’d be nice if we could map it out and then make a device which allows us access to that LCD screen. Then make a portable outside device a small version of the gameboy micro and then play emulated games off of the 5G ipod.

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William says:

January 7, 2006 at 10:11 am

whoa, great idea rome! that’d be sweet

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William G

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yoshi says:

January 9, 2006 at 7:55 am

I don’t even have the adblock extension installed and it crashes Firefox 1.5, can’t load the page at all…

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stereo type says:

January 9, 2006 at 10:04 pm

Any suggestions on choosing the right port aside from the “(COM & LPT) window”?

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Mike says:

March 4, 2006 at 7:22 pm

is there a way i can use the video out feature to conect to a monitor while having the kenwood kca-ip500 connected to my 60 gig ipod video

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Chris Johnson says:

March 14, 2006 at 2:36 pm

HI All
Where are people buying the 30 pin “clone” dock connectors in bulk from? I keep seeing people selling them in small numbers. They come in black and white colors. I am trying to locate the vendor to place a bulk order (200 – 500) from the maker of these.

SEE HERE
http://ipodlinux.org/Image:Ipod1.jpg

Thanks All,
CJ

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ipod_user says:

April 23, 2006 at 6:10 pm

Mitch at http://www.rush2112.net has made some excellent progress in this area not only does he sell cables (ipod to PC via RS232) but he wrote the ipod explorer application. See demo here http://www.ncrypt.net/touchscreen/cqc/ipod/ipod-control-demo.html

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