So as title says I revived my beloved iPod, upgraded its storage and also modeled and printed some accessories for my iPod. I made a TPU case, a dock using the original cable and a storage box.

Everything is available for free on my printables:

https://www.printables.com/de/@Gorroth1007/models

Link to my first post (including whole storage upgrade process):

https://lemmy.world/post/3243217

Here are some additional pictures:

  • ormr@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thank you so much. This inspires me to also revive my classic one day when I have the time for it. I still use it every now and then but the battery life has of course gone down. Didn’t know that iPod modding was a thing, hahaha.

    • Gorroth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My pleasure :) I read about it already a few years ago, but the parts where pretty expensive back then. But now they’re really cheap on AliExpress. Definitely recommend this!

      • Skiptrace@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I wouldn’t recommend Aliexpress TBH. I highly recommend Elite Obsolete, he sells iPod parts new and old stock (Cases, Motherboards, iFlash Kits, etc.) he even sells fully made pods.

        • Gorroth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They really do have some nice stuff. Maybe there are some parts I could use for a second one. Do you know if they deliver to Germany?

          • Skiptrace@lemmy.oneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I honestly do not know if he ships to Germany. At worst you can use a shipping forwarding service.

            • Gorroth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              They do, I tried. I wanted to order a HDD Flex cable for another project, but it’s very expensive. I would have to pay nearly 30€ for shipping while the cable costs around 2€ + taxes. That’s one expensive little flex cable. Was also having an eye on those wine red back covers, but even the back cover is 20€+30€ shipping. That’s 50€ just for a back cover… They really have some cool stuff, but with these shipping costs to Germany I guess I will have to stick with AliExpress.

  • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Modding classic iPods is such an awesome rabbit Hole. You can exchange the mini hard drive with anything from regular SD cards to quad micro-SD cards to even MSATA and M.2 SSDs. This also creates extra room to install a giant battery if you want to.

    I am currently trying to find a way to embed a Bluetooth transmitter so I can use my Bluetooth headphones with it.

    There’s even an alternative firmware called Rockbox that allows you to just plug in the iPod using USB and put MP3s on it instead of using iTunes.

    I also own a Creative Zen Vision but it’s sadly not as customizable and there’s no Rockbox firmware for it.

    Edit: before posting I didn’t see the link to the original post which talks about most of the above.