Real Wood iPod 289
An anonymous reader submits "People have tried modding their iPods using wood before, but it took the genius of ZapWizard to create the Real Wood iPod. Hand carved from a solid piece of African hardwood to a thickness of just 2mm, the end result has to be seen to be believed. Wood grain is the new Apple White!"
Real Voodoo Ipod? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Real Voodoo Ipod? (Score:3, Funny)
Improved Audio As Well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Improved Audio As Well (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly ! (Score:5, Funny)
regards
iJack Simpson
owner, Yahoo iPod Overclockers Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iPodOverclockers/ [yahoo.com]
Re:Exactly ! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Improved Audio As Well (Score:4, Informative)
See http://www.synaptics.com/technology/cps.cfm [synaptics.com] or http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5512416-1.html [cnet.com] for more info.
Floating iPod (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Floating iPod (Score:5, Funny)
King Arthur: an iPod!
Bedimere: Right! So, if she weighs the same as an iPod, she'd float in water, and she must be made of wood, so.
Villagers: A witch! Burn her!
Re:Floating iPod (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Floating iPod (Score:5, Funny)
Either way, it turns out that iPod is a witch.
Burn it! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Floating iPod (Score:2, Interesting)
Witches float because they weigh the same as a duck (and also because they're made of wood)
Drifting from Monty Python territory the float test was one used during witch trials. They assumed if people sunk they were pure but if they floated the devil was aiding them. So they either sunk and drowned or floated and were executed.
Re:Floating iPod (Score:2)
Re:Floating iPod (Score:2)
well.. (Score:3, Interesting)
A pine iBook sounds appealing
Re:well.. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:well.. (Score:5, Informative)
> How long until we can start getting, say... a mahongany powerbook?
You can't get your hands on real big-leaf mahogany nowadays as it's very rare and there has been talk of protecting it under CITES [cites.org]. Most reputable timber yards won't handle it.
The various replacements that are sold as "mahogany" are too soft and not dense enough.
> A pine iBook sounds appealing.
Again, too soft. What would be nice is one made out of African Blackwood. African blackwood is used for making woodwind instruments and is jet black and very hard wearing. Doesn't need any finish either and is fairly easy to shape with rasps etc.
Re:well.. (Score:2)
Re:well.. (Score:5, Funny)
dremel (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:dremel (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:dremel (Score:2)
Re:dremel (Score:3, Insightful)
Which leaves us with only nails available for carving by hand. "By knife" is not by hand as well, right?
Re:dremel (Score:3, Interesting)
In woodworking parlance, "by hand" means without the use of powered tools. "Handmade furniture" is built using hand planes instead of jointers and planars, handdrills instead of a drillpress, routing planes instead of a router, hand saws instead of table saws, etc.
Re:dremel (Score:2)
but a CNC machine would require plans and that would mean others could do it.
I hope that techs understand that if they produce CAD drawings for stuff others can then have the items made, can give feedback etc.
If this guy had produced a CAD doc for this hack I could then get my cover made from titanium or whatever.
The more people asking for CNC services mean reduced costs
Re:dremel (Score:2)
Er, no.
Supply/Demand; Invisible hand, and all that. Now if you were discussing economies of scale (making 10,000 identical iPod cases rather than one-offs), then that would be a horse of a different color and you might be correct.
But what y'all are discussing is custom one-off CNC machined iPod cases.
Nope, not gonna be cheap.
"I could then get my cover made from titanium or whatever"
"Or Whatever"? Really? Do you know what you're even aski
Re:dremel (Score:2)
For instance, I like to build boats. I tend to use stitch and glue construction. Rather than loft and cut designs I send a cad doc to the shop supply the marine plywood and voila back comes my ready to stich panels.
I also like sculptures based on formula, weird I know. I have had a few 'small' scultures made in resin $$$
At present the cost of this type of manuf
Touch wheel (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Touch wheel (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Touch wheel (Score:5, Informative)
Here's the blurb for those too lazy to search the site
QWheel(TM) touch wheel technology can be thought of as a 'capacitive potentiometer', where the wiper is a finger. The electrode consists of a simple resistive ring element placed behind the plastic panel; three capacitive QT sensing channels are connected to this ring, and the signals processed to 7-bits of absolute position. The result is output on an SPI serial interface. The device can be set to sense through panels up to 3mm thick, and even through gloves.
The entire circuit with the electrode ring can be fabricated on a single-sided PCB for very low cost. In many cases the technology is less expensive than mechanical equivalents, and in all cases is more reliable.
Wooden IPOD (Score:3, Interesting)
Steve Jobs iPod Collection (Score:5, Interesting)
My absolutely favorite were five iPods in a row done by Dale Chihuly in his Macchia [chihuly.com] glass patterns. Insane !! priceless is more like it.
I call BS (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not like Steve Jobs invented the iPod or the MP3 player concept himself anyway. The Diamond Rio was one of the originals and AFAIK, Apple outsourced the iPod development to a freelance EE.
Re:Steve Jobs iPod Collection (Score:3, Insightful)
Low quality? This mod is phenominal. If you had a team of designers and millions of dollars, you could have what Steve Jobs supposedly has. The rest of us will admire what one guy has done.
Lotsa Pictures (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's a Coral Cache [nyud.net] of it to help ease some of the disappearing server Slashdot magic.
Termites (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Termites (Score:2)
Beauty. (Score:2)
Re:Beauty. (Score:2)
Apple wood (Score:5, Funny)
Already exists ! (Score:4, Funny)
Mmmmm (Score:4, Funny)
Too much time.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Full SFF Case (Score:5, Interesting)
technology (Score:3, Funny)
Grow your own iPod (Score:2, Funny)
Just Tree (Score:2, Funny)
Ahaha...
His next project (Score:2)
truly (Score:2, Funny)
Would you do something like this? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but... (Score:2)
*ducks*
durability (Score:3, Informative)
no back? (Score:2)
Looks great But? (Score:2, Interesting)
mm... the 70's (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:mm... the 70's (Score:3, Informative)
Well they removed the harvest gold when they added the 6GB HDs... but Green is most certainly there.
Rear Panel (Score:2)
While it looks great out of the box, if you so much as breathe on it you scratch the hell out of it..
opinions (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The real question (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Not sure about this. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not sure about this. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not sure about this. (Score:5, Interesting)
Carpenters can make magnificent things out of wood. Okay, wooden objects (like this) are for everyone, but some people want wooden inlays in their cars too. I think that would be comparable.
I think it's a great mod. Still, I wonder how the wheel works. (As others have already posted) I don't have an iPod myself (yeah, a Shuffle, but that doesn't count), so I don't really know how they work.
Re:Not sure about this. (Score:2)
The are so many cool sorts of wood that designers use today and glossy coated redwood is not one of them. That is something for Laura Bush or your Grandma.
Re:Not sure about this. (Score:3, Informative)
Wood inlays consist of thin slices of wood covering a substrate. Wood inlays are generally used for decorating a flat object and it is possible to have curved wood inlays. This iPod case is a three dimensional carving made from one piece of wood, not an inlay.
Wood carving and wood inlays are both techniques that can be used to create beautiful works of art, and both
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:5, Insightful)
"No War for Hardwood!" (Score:5, Informative)
Some softwood types are also sensitive - old-growth redwoods forests and high mountain areas. Forest Service roadbuilding typically costs about 10 times as much as the value of the wood that gets logged using those roads, so it's essentially subsidizing the destruction of old-growth forests; the Clinton administration belatedly got around to banning it in many areas, and the Bush Administration rapidly re-authorized it.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:5, Insightful)
Plastic, which comes from oil, takes a bit longer. Recycled plastic is a possibility, but that doesn't generate new oxygen or decrease CO2 levels. It still takes energy to do the recycling process.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
What's more, chopping down trees and planting new ones is actually better for the environment than simply leaving the trees there. As a tree grows it generates more oxygen and takes up more CO2 than an old tree.
I had heard that a tree dying naturally released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere then it had absorbed in its entire life. The closest I could come to confirming this with a quick google search was this page [tappi.org], which claims that old overcrowded forests tend to use more oxygen than they produ
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Hrm, that makes more sense to me then it releasing more I guess. But if a tree absorbs x units of CO2, releasing y units of O2 in its lifetime, then you would assume the tree would contain x - y units of carbon. So where does it get the x - y units of O2 to synthesise the CO2 it releases?
Does it come from absorbed water, soil nutrients, etc.? I would assume there're 'running costs' associated with being a tree that would account for the use of things like that.
I'm just curious as to the mechanics behind
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
I did some checking, and I still can't find any reason for the CO2 released by a dying tree to be "exactly the net amount of CO2 that the tree absorbed over its life". If a tree lives 200 years, does this mean that 200 years worth of absorbed CO2 will flood back into the atmosphere as that tree dies?
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2, Informative)
To clarify for clarifications sake, it can't really be true that *all* the CO2 is released, since the tree may become trapped in sedimentary rock, and become a deposit of fossil fuel over the next few millenia. Until it's dug up and burnt.
In terms of conservation of matter (plus the fact that photosynthesis is essentially the re
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Hmm... I propose we build a giant bubble around an old growth forest, gas all the cute woodland creatures, measure the CO2 inside, then burn it to the ground. We can measure the levels of CO2 again afterward and speculate wildly that the difference represents the same amount of CO2 as the trees absorbed in their lifetime.
It's the only way to be sure.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
So something along the lines of it absorbs all the carbon to build itself up, then when it burns or rots, that carbon combines with oxygen in the air to form CO2 again?
That results in no net change in the amount of oxygen and CO2 available in the air - and now I think I understand. I was under the impression (from somewhere) that it all resulted in a net CO2 increase.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
No, Burning wood consumes O2. Lots of it. As far as the atmosphere is concerned its a total loss.
This guys formula says it all:
12CO2 + 6H20 = 2C6O6H6 + 9O2
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Except that hardwood trees on the whole are much slower growing and older than softwood trees. Chopping down hardwood trees is what is causing the deforestation of the rain forests.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Except that hardwood trees on the whole are much slower growing and older than softwood trees. Chopping down hardwood trees is what is causing the deforestation of the rain forests.
I'm not really speaking in support of chopping down old hardwood trees any more then I'm speaking in favour of producing that much plastic. I'm just saying it's probably has relatively less effect on the environment. Whether or not we should continue to do either is something I'm not really qualified to answer.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
But the question is, is that actually done? For tropical hardwoods, all too often this isn't the case (the land is used for farming instead, and quickly erodes to the point where it's useless).
The Forest Stewardship Council [fsc.org] tries to do something about this, e.g. by certifying wood that's produced in a sustainable way.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Softwood yes. Hardwood takes a lot longer to grow. Using Pine etc is no problem. Using mahogany is destroying the rain forests.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:3, Informative)
Plastic: Made from Oil.
Metal: Mined out of the ground, heated with electricity generated from Oil, or Polluting Coal, or *heavens* NuCuLar energy, or River Blocking Dams.
Wood: Actually a non-perishable resource, if the right species are used. Maple is good.
That said, you can obsess over whatever you want, that's your right, but be aware that there's no such thing as "clean" technology. Even if you go back to making plastic out of wood pulp, that is not guilt free.
And forget about going tech-less. The
Native (North/South) Americans (Score:2)
Re:Native (North/South) Americans (Score:2)
But this should not be interpreted as "Native Americans Were Good For Trees", especially here in the Northeast, where there are no trees that need periodic fires (like some lodgepole pines do in the West). They basically burned to clear land around these parts so they could grow their corn.
How do you think that the English were able to have th
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
But you don't have to shape with machines..you could do it all by hand, with stone knives and bear skins.
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BMO
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:5, Interesting)
People used to say similar things to you about harming the Brazilian rain forests but it's simply not true. The mahogany from the rainforests was never good enough for making models; it was only good enough for making crap furniture. Our wood came from plantations and this was 15 years ago.
I think its all been given a bad spin. Most of the time Pine is used and you can almost watch that grow.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:3, Insightful)
Because it's made from oil?
wrong! (Score:2)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:5, Informative)
This was some pretty cool stuff.
Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wood? It's worse than you already think. (Score:3, Interesting)
"These people and their iPods are killing millions of people and destroying the Earth."
Oh spare me, troll.
And how much wood do you need to make an iPod faceplate? A few cubic inches?
You deserve to be tweaked, but good.
I want one of these. I haven't justified the price for the 92XL...yet.
http://www.gerstnerusa.com/Exotic.htm [gerstnerusa.com]
But look at the prices!
The following 3 chests are avail
MOD UP!! (Score:2)
There are more people alive right now than have ever lived in the entire history of man kind. We are the ultimate renewable resource.
Re:Touchpad? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Touchpad? (Score:2)
Re:Touchpad? (Score:3, Informative)
Nope its a 4th gen [mp3.com]. This is from the creator in the article discussion:
As many have mis-read. This is not a old generation iPod with a scroll wheel. This is a 4th generation iPod with touch click wheel. It is held together by little tabs.
Re:Great. More rainforest destruction for fetishis (Score:3, Funny)
Right?