[F00 f00] sent in his excellent piece of iPod artistry. It’s one of the most original iPod hacks I’ve seen yet. (Aside from his funky dock) I haven’t checked up on the latest iPod dock specification, but I’d guess he’s sending the command signals via the serial (TTL) interface with a microcontroller(pic/atmel etc) to encode the button presses.
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thats insane! its too bad he didn’t show the controler more closely, the internals in perticular
dang, I was working on almost the exact same project. Just needed to write the iPL drivers for it. I like his idea of using the controller as a docking station, thats pretty cool
kickass!
But is still doesn’t beat the touch screen found on, like every gadget I own.
But since he was running linux it balences out ;)
I hate Ipods but that is a badass job on that.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks guys : )
Its kinda funny that his Nokia cell phone’s battery i just about dead. ?
Good mod! Rock on!
If they don’t explain how they did it, I automatically assume it’s a staged video.
So…yawn.
Sooo Jeff (#7), This could be totally possible by using a (wired) ipod remote and connecting the buttons to the NES. It would be messy but possible. But what i would like to know is did he made a chip that converts the nes signal to ipod or used a ipod (wired) remote and just solder through the buttons.
The Nes controller/connector is really simple.
http://pinouts.ru/Game/snescontroller_pinout.shtml
Ipod pin-out G2 and G3 generation. (other generations might be different of course)
http://www.maushammer.com/systems/ipod-remote/ipod-remote.html
So next time before you “automatically assume” try to think if it is possible ( you lazy bastard :P ). That said i don’t know if this is real but i believe it anyway because i think that it is possible.
Anyway if f00 f00 could be so kind to tell us what method he used i would be grateful. :)
jeff (#7) if you visit the forum you can see in one of the posts that guy is doing a how-to and will upload it soon
until then you can think it’s staged :)
Ha, I heard Richard Cheese playing in the background.
Awesome hack.
How to:
http://www.acidmods.com/tutorials/Ipodnes.ASP
And this time in colors! It’s the first color picture on the front of HaD for ages, I dont know what’s more scary: That it’s a change or that it botheres me.
That was really cool, I bet he missed alot of dates setting home on a friday and sat night to right linex drivers for that
:/ Not as impressive as first thought. Still nice, but doing a dock without modding the insides, and with all buttons on the NES pad functional would be much cooler.
You can view the iphone features on http://apple-iphone-new.blogspot.com/
you cant walk backwards…. If you notice in the video he never hits the back arrow button. Not having the ability to use that control sucks. It was a total downside when I uploaded that game on my ipod using rockbox.
Whow, thats great! the NES hack plus play Durandal over an ipod.
Here is a question do i have for my nano, can i twice its memory? too cool but too little mem.
Radical, loco, pasao.
2 thumbs up… way up…
holy shit, that IS the most original mod i’ve seen yet for the ipod. you are a king.
Thanks for the nice post!
guys, he is just running ipod linux on his ipod!
just enter here http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page to get full details!
i have it installed on my ipod, and i have to say it is the best thing i could ever had done to it! i now have total control over it..
xeviss
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I got a hold of a clean, refurbished Original NES Controller from this site.
forgot the link
http://www.nintendorepairshop.com
http://www.nintendorepairshop.com
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