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Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack

Posted by michael on from the piezo-acoustic dept.

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!"

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  1. Yes But, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can they compile a kernal for my brain?