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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. Figures by digitalgimpus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They figure out how to run Linux on an iPod... so they install Linux, and Apache.

    I don't think their iPod server is capable of withstanding a slashdot yet.

    I wonder if they can get the iPod display to show an MRTG graph of the slashdotting.

  2. Come on mods by ishmaelflood · · Score: 0, Redundant

    mod up the happy fun joke, it was excellent. or stupid. or excellent and stupid.