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The Sound of iPod
- pmjordan 18y agoThe text is a somewhat incoherent string of words, but as far as I can tell, the author managed to extract an iPod's bootloader by encoding the raw bitstream in audio and emitting it via the piezo sound generator and then recording and decoding the result on a PC to reconstruct the binary data. Nice. Reminds me of acoustic couplers.
- bemmu 18y agoThere exist some tools for decoding cassette games from some older computers. I wonder if he could have used C64 tape format for example, although I suspect it might not work because the piezo quality isn't good enough to produce the sounds.
- stevejohnson 18y agoThis is pretty old, but a decent read. Notice that the link is to archive.org, not the original site.
- Rexxar 18y agoYes, I have hesitated to put this piece information in the title. May be something like "(originally from ipodlinux.org)" at the end would have been better.
- wooby 18y agoI like reading little personal accounts like this by programmers. Have a problem, try a hack, fail. Sleep. Bring in some good friends. Things improve. Happen on some software or third party lib or blog post that opens your eyes. Succeed.