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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/

  2. 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.