Collaborate Disseminate
While the proliferation of the smartphone has caused the personal music player (PMP) market to mostly evaporate, there are still those who prefer a standalone device for their music. The …read more Continue reading Melodio Self Mate
If someone makes a device, someone else will want to break it open and run their own software on it. When the original manufacturer is Apple this is never made …read more Continue reading How The First iPod Was Blown Wide Open
A frequent contributor to the hacker community, [stacksmashing] has prepared an excellent instructional video on reverse engineering Apple’s Lighting connector proprietary protocol. The video begins by showing how to gain …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering the Apple Lightning Connector
The iPod Nano was one of Apple’s masterworks, but it’s really tied down by its dependence on wired headphones. At least, that’s what [Tucker Osman] must have thought, as he …read more Continue reading ESP32 Adds Bluetooth to an iPod Nano
While you’d be hard pressed to find a Hackaday writer that feels any nostalgia for the DRM nonsense the iPod helped to introduce, we’ve got to admit that we miss …read more Continue reading Scroll Through ESPHome With iPod-style Click Wheel
On October 23rd of 2001, the first Apple iPod was launched. It wasn’t the first Personal Media Player (PMP), but as with many things Apple the iPod would go on …read more Continue reading Silence Of The iPods: Reflecting On The Ever-Shifting Landscape Of Personal Media Consumption
The classic iPod was the MP3 player to beat back in the day, loaded with storage and with its characteristic click-wheel interface. [Ellie] had an iPod Video laying around, one …read more Continue reading Classic iPods Are Super Upgradeable in 2022
Have you ever wondered what consumer electronics look like when they’re in the ugly prototype stages? So have we. And thanks to [Cabel] of at Panic.com, we have a rare …read more Continue reading iPod, Therefore I Am: Looking back at an original iPod Prototype
We sure love to see nicely designed products get a new lease on life. Just as the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 was being announced, [production] was stuffing an original …read more Continue reading iPod Mod Puts Pi Zero in New Bod
While many would argue that the original iPod is the most iconic entry in the long and diverse line of digital audio players that Apple released over the years, there …read more Continue reading An Epic Quest to Put More Music on an iPod Nano 3G