a few of your instant messaged me the latest in powering your ipod with an external battery pack. this example, which is now making the rounds around the web is made out of an altoids case, 2 9v batteries, 2 AA batteries and a FireWire connector, adding about 10 hours of extra play–good for that international flight you’d likely miss when the man sees this in your bag.
my 3g ipod is officially scratched up, ipods are great–but only meant to be viewed behind glass and perhaps with white gloves if you need to touch it. so, i was thinking of painting the whole thing black, bono style, but i think i’ll make it look brushed metaly. here’s a site that shows how.
and just a site update, we now have categories–so, for example, you can go to or click ipod.hackaday.com and see all our ipod hacks.
with some colored transparency film, an exacto knife and throwing caution to the wind, you can make your ipod screen just about any color.
UPDATE: The link is dead, but we’re looking high and low for the correct one.
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
