22 May 2007
Convert old iPod to a Flash-Based iPod
Here’s an exerpt from this project that says everything we were going to say, but in a more mad-science kind of way:
“The microdrive is a little wonder on its own, it’s a very tiny harddrive - but the downside to that is that it’s a mechanical device with moving parts. Sooner or later these will all stop working. From the iPod Nano onwards the small iPods (nano, shuffle) have all been fitted with solid state flash memory instead of these microdrives.
Now with prices of flash memory cards dropping and sizes increasing, the idea was born to replace the microdrive inside my Mini with a 4GB Compact Flash card.“
Eighty eight miles per hour, Marty!
[note!] One can buy flash-based iPods from Apple (since around 2005), but it’s still fun to do it manually. Yessssir, it is.
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this is realy interesting, but i have been looking for someplace online that can show me how to convert an old ipod for something else i would like to do with it, basicaly i just want the ipod for the battery, its rechargable, and is just a little over the same volts as 2 AA batteries and so i would like to use it for another project. but since its rechargable i would like someway of knowing the batteries life while its in use, so i thought to use a few of the ipod parts and the screen to show how charged the battery is and how much longer till it needs to be recharged, and leave it so that i can just plug the USB cable into whats left of the ipod, and still use it to power my other project.
do you know of any way to alter the ipod to do that?