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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!"

6 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cool

  2. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    buzzzzzzzzzzz

  3. Lawyer Code: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CAppleLawers currentLawyers;
    currentLawyers = new CAppleLawyers;
    currentLawyers->destroyProject(max imumDestruction) ;
    delete currentLawyers;

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

    Can they compile a kernal for my brain?

  5. Hackaday, meet your new delayed mirror, Slashdot by MerryGoByeBye · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    zzzZZZZzzzZZZZZzzzz

    Have we really sunk so low that we now post stories that are substories of previous posted stories?

  6. Re:Hackaday, meet your new delayed mirror, Slashdo by MerryGoByeBye · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who are the cool-ass moderators that feel that my above post is off-topic, when it is, in fact, highly on-topic?

    Who are these jackasses?