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Working iPod Halloween Costume

Posted by timothy on from the and-what-were-you-this-year dept.

Jrod1080 writes "I decided to be an iPod for Halloween this year. I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume. I finally found a good use for a tablet PC, and used that for the display. A rewired USB mouse served as the 'Forward,' 'Reverse,' 'Play/Pause' buttons, and a bit of Java code played and displayed the MP3s. Some battery powered speakers provided the sound. It all worked out well, and I even won the costume contest!"

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  1. Mirror by Rufus211 · · Score: 5, Informative

    As the site's dead and mirrordot hasn't pulled a copy of it, I managed to mirror it:
    http://rufus.hackish.org/~rufus/www.eecs.umich.edu /~jwinick/Halloween2004/

    1. Re:Mirror by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I put up a tiny resized version of the finished project, since that was really all I wanted to see (and all I can afford to host). HERE

  2. Re:I like this one better... by xanthines-R-yummy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, but the submitted story guy's iPod costume actually works!

  3. coralized link is working by blackburnrovers · · Score: 5, Informative

    coralized link to eecs server is working.

    i am amazed that the umich server went down. i was in ann arbor from 1996-2002, and the worst outage i ever saw was when the main data center caught on fire. university-wide, e-mail was down for about 15 minutes when the backup unix boxes kicked in and everyone began to breathe easy again. i would bet the eecs server will be back up shortly. they use the real-deal unix boxes, not linux on intel's.

  4. Re:nice costume, but by EddydaSquige · · Score: 3, Informative

    It looked to me like a lot of work for a pretty shity looking costume.

  5. you suck by norkakn · · Score: 4, Informative

    I need this box to do my project work and you submitted it to slashdot?!?!

    Please don't ever put eecs up to the /.ers as it is much too small, put your shit onto caen's boxes

  6. Re:*cough* by norkakn · · Score: 4, Informative

    they brought the server back up but http is down. Only grad students have shell accounts to eecs. so all of us in the labs here are pissed as hell at him. If he'd put it on his engin space they would have just laughed at the spike, but eecs is a research server that's quite tiny (I don't know the specs off hand)

    I'd say rm -rf ~/* under his name and delete the account. A whole lot of us are stuck up here working without access to course websites.