Die Meme Die! Count the buttons. Count the contacts on the jack. You HAVE to encode three buttons onto one wire. Unless you enslave a tiny magical fairy and ch

Die Meme Die! Count the buttons. Count the contacts on the jack. You HAVE to encode three buttons onto one wire. Unless you enslave a tiny magical fairy and chain her inside to do that operation you are going to need a chip. Look at an Apple A1018, EMC number 1941 for the original iPod from the days of yore. It was the inline control, it had five buttons to control volume, forward, backward, and play/pause. It encodes the buttons onto a single wire of the headphone jack. The headphone remotes have been reverse engineered at every turn, for example http://www.maushammer.com/systems/ipod-remote/ipod-remote.html http://www.maushammer.com/systems/ipod-remote/ipod-remote.ht... . To date they are nothing more than simple "get the job done" protocols. Has anyone detected encryption in this iPod's remote protocol, or are the people writing these articles just angered that squeezing on the wires of their buttonless headphones doesn't make magic happen? Edit: Aw, I took too long to document my rant, now there are four of us sharing the rantlight. I wonder how many more just haven't hit the reply button yet?