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Build Your Own iPod Battery
OmniVector writes "With various complaints about the iPod battery's life, and its mere 10-8 hours of charge many of us are left looking for a way to keep the tunes kicking a little longer. Drew Perry has come up with a novel solution which can only run you a few bucks for an extra 10 hours of battery life out of a box of playing cards and a everyday batteries. Not bad for that long car trip where you just don't have a firewire charger handy."
mac is da ghey! only da ghey buys da mac!
pathetic bought and paid for website
iPOD is just another GAY device from apple!
Notice how I write apple without capital A - that much I disrespect the GAY company!
Mirror for when site is down.
Anyone else notice that this guy's latest blog entry talks about his dead iPod? Connect the dots....
Why are you sticking up for Creative, assclown?
Creative is the WORST hardware/software company,
run by a bunch of god damn niggers like yourself. FUCK YOU.
Creative's drivers are a fucking NIGHTMARE to get working properly.
I've had several SoundBlaster cards and I gave up on them after
the Audigy POS that was literally useless after I lost the CD.
Again, FUCK YOU, and FUCK CREATIVE.
That's a neat hack.
It's obviously not the work of a professional engineer, but that's what makes it neat. Taking a just barely functional knowledge of what's going on and solving a problem using available tools. I suspect this guy isn't going to be the professional EE you all think he should be for at least 4 more years; so a playing card pack and a couple of batteries are a lot more available to him than a 4 year degree.
Obviously there are better designs if you have the resources. That's not what this is about. It's a neat hack, and I like the thinking behind it. While I am smarter for having read the commentary from everyone regarding battery weight and lifespan, you are (generally speaking) all pompous jerks. You spout off like you know everything there is to know about electricity because you use a computer. Look, by the time the electricity is soothed into nice voltages and discrete measurements for a computer to use, most of the real EE work is done. Computers are electronic, and this is electric. Knowing how to code does NOT make you an EE. This design works just fine even if it does discharge the 9 volt batteries a little fast, or that you shouldn't recharge by simply applying back voltage.
It's a neat hack. You're all pompous jerks.
-theed