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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. Idea for Apple? by fembots · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe Apple can place a couple of these iPod "kiosks" in shopping malls, what's the better way to experience iPod mini with a giant iPod?

    On a more serious note though, a real scary Halloween custume is Death framed inside a blue-tinted Window.

    With so many images on one page, this guy obviously didn't read the Do-Not-Slashdot ACT 1996, here's a coral link just in case.

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    Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
  2. I like this one better... by unwiredmatt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/ipod-costume-02455 5.php I like this one better

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  3. More cool costumes by base_chakra · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To see more really cool, ingenious costumes, check out these gems made by Rob Cockerham of cockeyed.com:

    Paparazzi costume
    Jenga costume
    Africa costume
    California costume

  4. Re:I decided to be a web server this year by taped2thedesk · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Technically, you're correct... that's his "personal" web space hosted through EECS Departmental Computing Organization (DCO). The EECS "personal" web space is shared with the rest of the EECS department's web site (as in the personal and normal web servers for the department are not on separate servers).

    On the other hand, anybody with an active e-mail account (i.e. him) gets 1 GB of space on www-personal.umich.edu, a bank of servers dedicated to hosting personal space for the entire university (and could probably accomodate the load). He probably also gets the 200 MB offered through CAEN, the engineering computer network, hosted at www-personal.engin.umich.edu and also probably more than capable of handling the load.

    For whatever reason, the EECS department doesn't seem to have a web server capable of serving very many people, and it's come down a couple times over the last few weeks under normal loads. To think it would be able to withstand a slashdotting is laughable. This infrastructure problems aren't his fault, but it'd seem much more logical to place the page on servers that are designed to handle uber loads, instead of posting it on a shared server that contains project specs and homework assignments that students need access to 24/7.

    My comment was only meant to say that he either didn't realize that the EECS web server wasn't a piece of shit, or didn't care that he was going to crash a server that a lot of people need access to right now.

    On the other hand, one would think that a major computer science/engineering deparment that is getting grants to research ways to withstand DOS attacks would be able to withstand a slashdotting... obviously that's wishful thinking.