Ipod classic hack driven design

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Name required. After last week's Apple announcements, your previous-gen iPod probably isn't looking so hot. Cheer up! We've got five mods that'll breathe new life into the little guy, so you don't have to feel guilty about picking up a shiny replacement. You might think your iPod already sounds good— if you aren't using crappy earbuds —but most audiophiles would turn up their noses up at the sight of it.

The trick behind the mod is replacing the circuitry that leads to your headphone jack, which the team at Red Wine Audio claim degrades the signal. With new parts in place, you'll enjoy untainted sound—though you'll need to connect the modded iPod to an amplifier to get any audio.

Unzip the file, and start iPodWizard. The color one was easy, once you select the firmware you can click the arrows to see the icons, in our case, they were color. Once you find it, click Save Bitmap and save the file to your system. From there use any bitmap editor to edit the image, we used PaintShop Pro and pasted the Engadget logo over the icon then saved it.

Click Load Bitmap and load in the image you just created. Click Write, this will edit the firmware on your PC and then prepare it to restore to the iPod. Once that is complete, open up Apple's iPod update.

Make sure your iPod is plugged in, and iPod updater will look for what firmware you can restore to, for us, it found the iPod photo and we had the option to restore, which will then add the new firmware with our custom image. Click restore, and in about 5 minutes you'll have the new image you made, keep in mind this kills all your data, so back up before you do this. Here's ours The other one is Hello Kitty, since we know it's just a matter of time until someone starts selling a Hello Kitty branded iPod.

NOTE: this does not work on any other ipod than the ipod video. When ipodwizard starts, change the edit mode to firmware file and then click open firmware.

First of all, open iTunes. It will tell you a new version of the firmware is available for your ipod. Don't update. Never update. You'll lose your custom firmware and the games after we put them on. This part will be pretty straightforward, since rockbox has its own installer. We'll be installing a bootloader. Don't worry, it's not too hard.

First download the files.