here’s a great guide of how the ipod remote works, if you’re like me, and might be if you’re reading this, you’d like to control your ipod via other ways, like wiring your jacket, or wrist watch. this site has all the info, connections, signals and protocol to pull it off.
here’s a good step-by-step on replacing the battery on an ipod (2/3 generation) some of the newer batteries last 80% longer, so this is totally worth it if you’re not getting good battery life.
i thought it was clever to boost the itrip mini with my lame little hack, and change what’s playing on cars next to me at stop lights, and then this project blows that out of the broadcasting waters. be sure to check with your local laws and all that before broadcasting with this “proof of concept” itrip amp.
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i was playing with the new version of mac os x (tiger) but didn’t want to install it to my local hard drive, so i had a pc formatted ipod i was about to zap any way, so i formatted it and installed tiger on the ipod. while it’s not a good idea to use an ipod a mac hard drive, it’s good for testing and emergencies if needed
while the ipod isn’t exactly something you want to read pages and pages of information on, there’s lots of times, i call them “hostage times” when you’re just standing in line or waiting when it would be cool to read some headlines or news on something. since i sync my ipod up a lot, i figured i could use ipodagent to get all my rss feeds over, works pretty good
man, this took awhile to cook up, but it was worth it. using an ir transmitter from griffin and included pocket pc software, i recorded the “sounds” my remotes to the dvd player, tv, etc
i had this small solar panel that charged pdas “okay” but not really that great, so once i started using a spot watch (fm radio data watch) i thought it might do a better job charging the watch, it did, and it also was the start of the solar powered ipod project.
