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.
first post alright
this is very interesting… hope to see more hacking projects soon utilizing this
Very nice work!
Hack _everything_!
Anyone know the resistor needed to get the 5G ipod into Record mode?
the site keeps crashing firefox 1.5 for me
Same here, crashy.
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.
you guys need to turn off adblock tabs, it was happening to me for a couple weeks before i figured it out
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.
whoa, great idea rome! that’d be sweet
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William G
I don’t even have the adblock extension installed and it crashes Firefox 1.5, can’t load the page at all…
Any suggestions on choosing the right port aside from the “(COM & LPT) window”?
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
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
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