Comments on: iPod hd adapter

By: Embepsise

Embepsise — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:59:17 +0000

This is really cool… I want to improve my scrawny category I have a nice joke for you) Frankenstein: What is it like to be in a bottle for 5,000 years? Genie: It’s a JARRING experience.

By: battery

battery — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:07:05 +0000

If you need a new laptop ac adapter, I suggest you could purchase one from http://www.batteryfast.com , which would shipping to you fast and the quality is satisfy satisfied.:)

By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:33:08 +0000

Great Idea.

For the guy who posted:
http://www.meritline.com/moving-star-emv18bk-1-8-aluminum-enclosure-black.html

it says:
Currently Not In Stock.

So good we have this hack :-)

By: Espen Askeladd

Espen Askeladd — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:18:22 +0000

"its not about saving anything... that and you just can't put a price on experience ;) Besides, if you have free time (e.g. you can't get paid for it anyway), why not?"

Good points. I dabbed with projects like this back in Uni, before RL snuck up on me and stole my time.

A 50 pin flat scsi-cable soldered to a 25 pin D-sub for my Amiga springs to mind :-)

By: trebuchet03

trebuchet03 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:45:33 +0000

“How much work are you willing to put into saving $15.99? Some quick googling turned up this:”

its not about saving anything… that and you just can’t put a price on experience ;) Besides, if you have free time (e.g. you can’t get paid for it anyway), why not?

By: Espen Askeladd

Espen Askeladd — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:57:49 +0000

How much work are you willing to put into saving $15.99? Some quick googling turned up this:

http://www.meritline.com/moving-star-emv18bk-1-8-aluminum-enclosure-black.html

I bought a dual toshiba/hitachi 1.8" usb-powered casing about a year ago for less.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:17:10 +0000

cool i would just buy on though

By: drew

drew — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:08:41 +0000

whatever. let em say stuff. if someone has a deeper appiciation for something, then they’re a better person for it, and they probably enjoy life more. let closed-minded people say what they want.

By: moddy

moddy — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:07:26 +0000

Well done, I would assemble one with the spare parts
before I bought it.

By: khoa

khoa — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:08:56 +0000

i really admire the spirit of DIY'fers, great job! (one helluva soldering job there)

anything can be bought, it's more in the challenge of being able to do it yourself from your own research and knowledge (and possibly learning something from it) than it is to save a couple of dollars.

By: trebuchet03

trebuchet03 — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:01:28 +0000

“Maby HAD should consider a log in/account for posting comments.. I mean, at least then he can delete account of people who openly trash a hack.”

This comes up every now and then… it seems that the admin decided against that – which is fine by me, I can ignore it… But as it always does, crap floats to the top :p

“I have always been for DIY, the whole community has lost its luster due to the lack of things built by hand. I simply cannot justify buying something when I can build it for nothing out of the parts I have here.”

Har Har… it’s a cable hacked to an iPod. Just because it is commercially available does not change what it is… But I agree… – I always get the stink eye when I say I’m going to build something, even though it could be commercially bought…

By: Robert Brown

Robert Brown — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:30:04 +0000

I guess if you enjoy buying your mod's from a store. I just enjoyed the learning experience from doing this. Also lets note my interface has the following strong points:
-An eject button, so screwless and tooless to remove the drive with another
-Front mounted seperate HDD power and activity LED's

I have always been for DIY, the whole community has lost its luster due to the lack of things built by hand. I simply cannot justify buying something when I can build it for nothing out of the parts I have here. And then actually understand how it works.

By: MRE

MRE — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:22:42 +0000

Maby HAD should consider a log in/account for posting comments.. I mean, at least then he can delete account of people who openly trash a hack.
I do not, in any way, say he should delete an account of someone who says “Im not impressed.”
Im saying delete accounts of people who say “this sucks hackaday sucks etc sucks.”

By: Monster

Monster — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:47:51 +0000

leave the hack alone guys. if you don't like it you shouldn't post, instead you should be doing something better to be posted here.

gotta help a bit-techer out
\i'm_not_A_MONSTER

By: Caramelzappa

Caramelzappa — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:43:41 +0000

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=AP18TOSH-U-BLK&cat=CSE

Already done for you.

Not very impressive compared to the super ipod hack that allowed you to use 3.5" HDD's with ipods.