Scratch

I may look inside.

Lightnin wrote:

Yeah, if it's really broken, I'd take it apart to look at the guts and try to figure out how it works. 

But if you get it working again, glue it inside a stuffed animal to that the buttons / headphone port are still accessible. Put a special mix / playlist for a friend on it, and then give them your mix-tape-animal. They can then plug their headphones into it.

I did this once with flash memory glued inside an old cassette tape, and another time with a usb stick buried in play-doh.

It rarely does work. I found this too:
http://www.rockbox.org/
I don't know if it will run on mine or not.

fire219 wrote:

undefeatedgames wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Yeah, if it's really broken, I'd take it apart to look at the guts and try to figure out how it works. 

But if you get it working again, glue it inside a stuffed animal to that the buttons / headphone port are still accessible. Put a special mix / playlist for a friend on it, and then give them your mix-tape-animal. They can then plug their headphones into it.

I did this once with flash memory glued inside an old cassette tape, and another time with a usb stick buried in play-doh.

It rarely does work. I found this too:
http://www.rockbox.org/
I don't know if it will run on mine or not.

With Rockbox, a good rule of thumb is that if it has a low resolution, text-only screen (or no screen at all), it won't work. I have an old RCA Pearl (that is actually the same form factor as yours, but still works) that I wanted to put Rockbox on. D:

@topic: If you are good at electronics, try to salvage the screen, headphone jack, and other stuff from it. If you are REALLY good, try to figure out how to reprogram the onboard flash to do something else (Tetris, anyone?    ).

I'm not that good at electronics...

see if you can swallow it whole

wait that might be a bad idea

Lightnin wrote:

But if you get it working again, glue it inside a stuffed animal to that the buttons / headphone port are still accessible. Put a special mix / playlist for a friend on it, and then give them your mix-tape-animal. They can then plug their headphones into it.

I did this once with flash memory glued inside an old cassette tape, and another time with a usb stick buried in play-doh.

That sounds so cool!

GameHutSoftware wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Yeah, if it's really broken, I'd take it apart to look at the guts and try to figure out how it works. 

+1
i love doing this

And me :>

fungirl123 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

I would add fake buttons and knobs to make it look like a handheld time machine
Take the time machine a) in your pocket or b) wrapped around your wrist wherever you go, and make frequent comments about how annoying it is when you get frozen in time for five minutes and passersby just see you standing there with changing facial expressions
I do this except with dental floss containers and broken technology
...It's normal right?

Omg yes that would be hilarious

It gets interesting reactions, at any rate

TotallyNotWickimen wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

I would add fake buttons and knobs to make it look like a handheld time machine
Take the time machine a) in your pocket or b) wrapped around your wrist wherever you go, and make frequent comments about how annoying it is when you get frozen in time for five minutes and passersby just see you standing there with changing facial expressions
I do this except with dental floss containers and broken technology
...It's normal right?

Omg yes that would be hilarious

It gets interesting reactions, at any rate

fungirl123 wrote:

TotallyNotWickimen wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

Omg yes that would be hilarious

It gets interesting reactions, at any rate

*reads username*
Hello, Wickimen.

She's onto me.

bananaman114 wrote:

fungirl123 wrote:

TotallyNotWickimen wrote:

It gets interesting reactions, at any rate

*reads username*
Hello, Wickimen.

it's quite apperent that that is not wickimen

Of course

Wickimen wrote:

I would add fake buttons and knobs to make it look like a handheld time machine
Take the time machine a) in your pocket or b) wrapped around your wrist wherever you go, and make frequent comments about how annoying it is when you get frozen in time for five minutes and passersby just see you standing there with changing facial expressions
I do this except with dental floss containers and broken technology
...It's normal right?

I now need to do that with my dead 2004 iPod Mini. XD

Alright. We opened it up, and it's pretty cool. Turns out the battery died, which according to many on the Internet, this happens often.

Now I got to think if I should replace the battery or not. I could have a backup to my mp3, but I am tired of the stupid Sansa mp3 players. Maybe I'll make a vid of me going to a ballpark and using it as a baseball 

Ok, I probably won't do that. I'll have to figure out what to do with the components. Any suggestions?