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Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack
jugander writes "nilss over at the iPodLinux Project (previously on /.) has performed one of the coolest and most bizzare hacks I've seen in a while. He was able to extract the bootloader from the 4G iPod by sounding out ticks with the iPod's squeaky piezo. With some tweaking and a makeshift recording studio, he was able to dump the 64 kb file at 5 bytes/sec. And yes, this means that 4G iPods can now boot linux!"
I thought the sound output trick was highly clever, bravo. I'm looking forward to having Linux on my mini.
/.ed already?
does the motherfucker run *bsd?
that your tongue sticks to it!
Does this mean the ipod will support ogg-vorbis now? And they said it would never happen.
Dude, he extracted the bootloader using the piezo! It's bloody brilliant.
I'm even looking forward to the dupes of this article which will probably be posted as soon as his server recovers!
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
This is a truely clever hack, I'm glad I donated money to these guys for a new 4G ipod.. now my ipod can run linux !
:-)
Hey, if you donate an ipod to me, I'll even make it play music
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The irony of insulting the ipod with a free ipod link as the sig...
oh.. wait a sec.. isnt my... crap.
P.S. The ipods, at least the 4G's have TWO cpus.
I don't know about you, but I'm gonna run the Apollo emulator on it and have it land on the Moon. I'm already there.
Only if you've been reduced to making nothing but clicking noises.
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
isn't this what we usually call a modem ?
Sure but can it run linux?
Wait, umm....
Oh!
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these things!
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But I bought my kidney very hush-hush from the back of a gray van.
Combining this story with the previous one:2 9/1815242&tid=217&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/
and I for one welcome our new iPod overlords.
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I read the Google cache, and Google should hire him. If he doesn't already work there. This type of thinking is what Google is all about. I think. I'm not smart enough to be sure.
There are 01 types of people in this world. Those that understand binary, and me.
Then you could play music from you desktop instead of you iPod, and play the iPod version of solitaire.
I intend to use this technique to revere engineer the clock on my VCR. That 12:00 just keeps blinking at me, defiantly.
Stop intellectual property from infringing on me
That free iPod in your sig, is it free as in beer or free as in running Linux?
There's no 'on' position on the Slacker switch!
The head of a pin is not pointless...
Yes it is, Bunky. It's the other end that is not pointless.
Infuriate left and right
You are aware that this is Slashdot, right?
I'm waiting for someone to get an electric toothbrush to run Linux. Then he'll get WiFi working with it and modulate the pulses so that his skull resonates at the right frequencies to hear it for the purposes of streaming Ogg files directly into his brain.
Why would someone do it? Well, because no one else has and to get linked on Slashdot.
LK
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I assume someone's going to try this with the iPod shuffles.
I guess they'll have to use the LED lights to blink the signal out. Hell, they'll probably have to use the LEDs to blink the interface out too.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.