iPod breakout dock

posted Dec 22nd 2005 11:00am by Eliot Phillips
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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first post alright

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

Posted at 11:39 am on Dec 22nd, 2005 by the dentist

Very nice work!

Hack _everything_!

Posted at 11:45 am on Dec 22nd, 2005 by strider_mt2k

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

Posted at 3:52 pm on Dec 22nd, 2005 by nate mc

the site keeps crashing firefox 1.5 for me

Posted at 5:58 pm on Dec 22nd, 2005 by carpespasm

Same here, crashy.

Posted at 7:11 pm on Dec 22nd, 2005 by ez

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.

Posted at 1:58 am on Dec 23rd, 2005 by Steve

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

Posted at 8:45 am on Dec 24th, 2005 by theotherme

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.

Posted at 11:01 pm on Dec 29th, 2005 by Rome

whoa, great idea rome! that’d be sweet

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William G

Posted at 10:11 am on Jan 7th, 2006 by William

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

Posted at 7:55 am on Jan 9th, 2006 by yoshi

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

Posted at 10:04 pm on Jan 9th, 2006 by stereo type

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

Posted at 7:22 pm on Mar 4th, 2006 by Mike

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

Posted at 2:36 pm on Mar 14th, 2006 by Chris Johnson

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

Posted at 6:10 pm on Apr 23rd, 2006 by ipod_user

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