[Ed] sent in his latest iPod modding effort. Previously he did this on a 4th gen, and now he’s following that up with a 5th gen version. He found an even smaller bluetooth module for the mod, but it requires replacing the hard drive with a compact flash card to make room inside the case if you want to keep the original back cover.
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the bandwidth on bluetooth is really low, meaning sound quality suffers. so although it’s a useful hack, the benefits come with drawbacks.
true, Bluetooth stereo is not hi-fi audio but works great for the gym and anywhere else you don’t want to get tangled up in wires.
cool. if only i didn’t dislike ipods. i could see getting a used ipod for the bluetoothing and having it as file storage.
Has anyone taken apart one of these stereo-to-bluetooth adapters before? I am hoping to make a dongle for my Pacemaker (www.pacemaker.net) when it comes in the mail, but the PCB in this guide still looks too big. Any suggestions?
he should have used this bluetooth adaptor:
http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15542
ummm
regarding the bluetoothing as a file storage comment. yeah, that wouldnt work. this is adding bluetooth for headphones, not a serial data to bluetooth converter. im curious if you could actually do decent data trasfers using the onboard serial over bluetooth using ipod linux.
m: that adapter is impressive but you’d need to run linux and figure out how to get USB host capability working.
http://ipodlinux.org/USB
Also I have no idea what kind of processing power encoding would take.
Has anyone looked at adding SD capability as opposed to the CF? Or even a mini SD raid type setup? I know you can get CF to SD or Pro Duo adapters too, there is even a pro duo to dual SD for PSP, could that be used?
Nice Stuff… Keep It Up.
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I saw your site bookmarked on Reddit. I love your blog and articles. Keep up the great work.
I used Magnetic Reed Switch to control the Bluetooth module :)
https://twitter.com/senadaruc/status/1346917680431955970?s=20
Thanks,