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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

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The neat extra here is because I've installed Rockbox on this iPod and piggybacked the Bluetooth transmitter power from the accessory jack, I can turn Bluetooth on and off in software.

Time to revisit my Bluetooth iPod conversion, because while it works it can't be closed properly without glitching out a lot, because of a few things being under pressure and likely intermittently shorting out on the case.

Going to redo the wiring with much thinner wires, and remove the jumper from the compact flash board and just solder it closed instead.

Half an opened iPod on a desk with a compact flash card inside it, and the headphone connector board next to it with a couple of other devices in heat shrink wrap wired onto it. A spool of colourful, thin wires in the background