artsci
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2008
- Posts
- 35
- Likes
- 10
I'm tinkering around again. I've taken apart my 160g iPod Classic, 6th generation, and I'm modifying it so the Sleek wireless transmitter can built into the iPod itself. This way there will be no plug-in device sitting on top of the iPod and no need to separately charge the Sleek transmitter, since it will be powered from the iPod battery.
I've already removed the circuit board from the Sleek transmitter case and determined that it will, with little filing here and there, fit into the iPod case. I've connected it to the iPod battery to test functioning, and it works fine. Now all I have to do is to complete the job, which will take another day or two.
This cannot be done with any iPod except the 160g Classic, since the others won't have room in the case for the Sleek transmitter. And this is not a job for the fainthearted -- you have to be pretty comfortable taking risks with hardware.
Why I'm am I doing this? I guess to prove that it can be done and to have the only such iPod in the world
And it will be the perfect travel companion to my Sleek-powered UE10 earphones (see this thread: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f99/ad...-ue10s-374641/). I'll post some photos of the work over the weekend.
I've already removed the circuit board from the Sleek transmitter case and determined that it will, with little filing here and there, fit into the iPod case. I've connected it to the iPod battery to test functioning, and it works fine. Now all I have to do is to complete the job, which will take another day or two.
This cannot be done with any iPod except the 160g Classic, since the others won't have room in the case for the Sleek transmitter. And this is not a job for the fainthearted -- you have to be pretty comfortable taking risks with hardware.
Why I'm am I doing this? I guess to prove that it can be done and to have the only such iPod in the world
