Piezo-Acoustic iPod Hack 397

Posted by michael on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:45PM 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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Yup (Score:3, Funny)

by ryanr ( 30917 ) * writes: <ryan@thievco.com> on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:47PM (#11516056) Homepage Journal

I thought the sound output trick was highly clever, bravo. I'm looking forward to having Linux on my mini.

2 posts and it's... (Score:2, Funny)

by moo_penguin ( 532831 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:48PM (#11516067)

/.ed already?

why do you people only care about linux (Score:5, Funny)

by sakura the mc ( 795726 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:48PM (#11516070)

does the motherfucker run *bsd?

Slashdotted at 0 comments (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:48PM (#11516072)

Is the site hosted on a 4G iPod?

Wow, this hack is soooo cool.... (Score:5, Funny)

by glomph ( 2644 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:49PM (#11516080) Homepage Journal

that your tongue sticks to it!

Does this mean? (Score:5, Funny)

by thinkliberty ( 593776 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:52PM (#11516105)

Does this mean the ipod will support ogg-vorbis now? And they said it would never happen.

Re:2 posts and it's... (Score:2, Funny)

by Janitha ( 817744 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:52PM (#11516106) Homepage

Seems like it.

Wonder if they were hosting the website through a iPod through Apache, might explain the reason for such a short time overload.

Re:Hackaday, meet your new delayed mirror, Slashdo (Score:5, Funny)

by physicsphairy ( 720718 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:52PM (#11516108)

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

Re:Clever hack (Score:3, Funny)

by Rosco P. Coltrane ( 209368 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:53PM (#11516116)

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 :-)

Re:Its sweet but does it ahve a point? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:54PM (#11516123)

-1 Where's your geek spirit?

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

by cyberfunk2 ( 656339 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:54PM (#11516132)

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.

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:56PM (#11516146)

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.

Re:Yes But, (Score:5, Funny)

by Concerned Onlooker ( 473481 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @06:57PM (#11516167) Homepage Journal

Can they compile a kernal for my brain?
Only if you've been reduced to making nothing but clicking noises.

Re:why do you people only care about linux (Score:5, Funny)

by BladeMelbourne ( 518866 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:03PM (#11516201)

BSD will only run on dead iPods.

Now please wash your potty-mouth out with soap, detergent or caustic soda.

Re:piezo? (Score:5, Funny)

by tomhudson ( 43916 ) writes: <barbara.hudson@b ... m minus math_god> on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:10PM (#11516240) Journal

So now we can say:

This is the sound of your ipod "zzz ZZ zz zz ZZZ zz" This is the sound of your ipod running as a webserver being slashdotted "zzz ZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZWTF!!!!!! _______________"

using this hack for ages (Score:5, Funny)

by jean-guy69 ( 445459 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:12PM (#11516262)

isn't this what we usually call a modem ?

Re:Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:16PM (#11516279)

lol
gee how AOL of you

Obligatory comment (Score:5, Funny)

by deutschemonte ( 764566 ) writes: <{moc.liamg} {ta} {yremogtnom.enal}> on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:20PM (#11516301) Homepage

Sure but can it run linux?

Wait, umm....

Oh!

Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these things!

Re:Valid URL? (Score:3, Funny)

by eomnimedia ( 444806 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:25PM (#11516329)

Yes, my colon is legal.

But I bought my kidney very hush-hush from the back of a gray van [snopes.com].

I for one (Score:2, Funny)

by ICECommander ( 811191 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:27PM (#11516339)

Combining this story with the previous one:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/2 9/1815242&tid=217&tid=14 [slashdot.org]
and I for one welcome our new iPod overlords.

go work for google (Score:4, Funny)

by Drunken_Jackass ( 325938 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:33PM (#11516371) Homepage

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.

Re:looking forward to an iPod emulator (Score:5, Funny)

by bsharitt ( 580506 ) * writes: <bridget&sharitt,com> on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:34PM (#11516376) Journal

Then you could play music from you desktop instead of you iPod, and play the iPod version of solitaire.

CLICK! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:39PM (#11516398)

CLICK click CLICK CLICK
click
click click click

click click

CLICK
click CLICK
click CLICK click click
CLICK click CLICK

CLICK click
CLICK CLICK CLICK
click CLICK CLICK

Never let the lameness filter get in the way of a good joke, OK Taco?

Re:why!? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @07:41PM (#11516407)

We're still looking for a cancer cure, aids cure
Only because you are too stupid to realise that iPods running Linux cure Aids and cancer (but only in Penguins).

Re:Hehee. Just like loading off a Cassette tape :) (Score:5, Funny)

by teknomage1 ( 854522 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @08:20PM (#11516664) Homepage

I intend to use this technique to revere engineer the clock on my VCR. That 12:00 just keeps blinking at me, defiantly.

Re:Figures (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @08:22PM (#11516674)

You're forgetting to imagine what a Beowulf cluster of these babies could do!

In Korea, only old people imagine Beowulf clusters of Linux booting iPods, while in Soviet Russia, iPods linux boot you, and some iPods can even show pictures of Nathalie Portman and hot grits... in Japan. But all I wanted to know is if it will run NetBSD, you insensitive clod!

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

by Arru ( 771173 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @08:47PM (#11516828)

That free iPod in your sig, is it free as in beer or free as in running Linux?

Really think outside the box (Score:2, Funny)

by Anita Coney ( 648748 ) writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @09:35PM (#11517033) Homepage

Linux-heads are always getting Linux to run in odd things like game consoles, phones, and now an MP3 player. But how about something REALLY amazing. Remotely installing Linux on Bill Gates' personal computer!

You are so confused (Score:3, Funny)

by A nonymous Coward ( 7548 ) * writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @10:20PM (#11517275)

The head of a pin is not pointless...

Yes it is, Bunky. It's the other end that is not pointless.

Re:Taco's comments from the page (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday January 29, 2005 @10:40PM (#11517361)

He didn't mention that his ipod had double the normal battery life, thanks to a sticker he'd put on it.

So, no.

Mahatma Stalin

Re:Its sweet but does it ahve a point? (Score:5, Funny)

by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) writes: on Sunday January 30, 2005 @02:19AM (#11518264) Homepage Journal

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

iPod shuffle (Score:3, Funny)

by ArbitraryConstant ( 763964 ) writes: on Sunday January 30, 2005 @03:22AM (#11518518) Homepage

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.

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Yup (Score:3, Funny)

2 posts and it's... (Score:2, Funny)

why do you people only care about linux (Score:5, Funny)

Slashdotted at 0 comments (Score:0, Funny)

Wow, this hack is soooo cool.... (Score:5, Funny)

Does this mean? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:2 posts and it's... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Hackaday, meet your new delayed mirror, Slashdo (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Clever hack (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Its sweet but does it ahve a point? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Yes But, (Score:5, Funny)

Re:why do you people only care about linux (Score:5, Funny)

Re:piezo? (Score:5, Funny)

using this hack for ages (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! (Score:1, Funny)

Obligatory comment (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Valid URL? (Score:3, Funny)

I for one (Score:2, Funny)

go work for google (Score:4, Funny)

Re:looking forward to an iPod emulator (Score:5, Funny)

CLICK! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:why!? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Hehee. Just like loading off a Cassette tape :) (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Figures (Score:1, Funny)

Re:The iPod hardware is too weak for anything usef (Score:2, Funny)

Really think outside the box (Score:2, Funny)

You are so confused (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Taco's comments from the page (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Its sweet but does it ahve a point? (Score:5, Funny)

iPod shuffle (Score:3, Funny)

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