iPod dock extension cable

Posted Feb 7th 2007 11:47AM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: ipod hacks

I've lost count of the number of emails from people looking for these things, so here it is. The hardest part of [Mike's] little hack is the soldering. The pins on those iPod connectors are just evil to solder. You'll need the patience of a saint.

I've worked with these same connectors and I came up with an easier, if bulkier method of soldering those things in my iPod super dock How-To.

Reader Comments

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1. sweet deal! I'll get to work on one =D

Posted at 1:03AM on Feb 8th 2007 by shaeffer

2. Looks useful but I fort the whole point of a dock is to be docked lol

Posted at 1:34AM on Feb 8th 2007 by Tom Parker

3. This looks ideal for building your own dock. I also have a Cellboost battery-powered iPod charger thing, and the female dock connector on SparkFun will let me charge other devices with an iPod cable or the Cellboost charger.

Posted at 7:34AM on Feb 8th 2007 by Joey Y

4. boring.

Posted at 8:23AM on Feb 8th 2007 by cd

5. "Looks useful but I fort the whole point of a dock is to be docked lol"

Which is great right up until you put a case on the iPod and it won't fit into any kind of cradle.

Posted at 9:55AM on Feb 8th 2007 by thetable

6. thats kinda dumb... you can't dock an ipod when it is in a case... with they had thought about that (apple)...

Posted at 12:58PM on Feb 8th 2007 by TGBM

7. It's Bwoken. :(

"This Account Has Been Suspended"
"Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."

Posted at 7:30PM on Feb 8th 2007 by dacheetah

8. Lawl.... the cpanel account suspended page. nothing like going over your bandwidth huh.

Posted at 10:42PM on Feb 8th 2007 by Robert Brown

9. Bwoken and not even on Archive.org yet!

Posted at 11:31PM on Feb 8th 2007 by MG

10. Can you make a cord that can connect ipod chargers or speaker or something like that into a zune, or iriver mp3 player maybe. How cool would that be to be able to use a majority mp3 player's accessories (which everyone has) to charge or listen to an iriver or something. I've been told it is impossible but I know it isn't. Please email me if you can tell me anything

Posted at 12:11PM on Feb 11th 2007 by alex smith

11. I think it's a great idea, and can't understand why bose doesn't just make a female connector. Yes. the dock is made for docking iPods, but suppose your ipod died and won't come back to life. Or it got stolen, and somebody cheaped out and bought you a shuffle, or maybe you just want to plug the dock into your computer to over-ride the built in speakers? The cable allows you to use the dock for things besides an iPod. You could plug in an old-school MD player, a digital voice recorder, I mean, anything with the mini plug. I'm surprised Bose doesn't just follow the lead of Klipsch and make the dock accessible to other media players. Even say, little "vidiots" with their PSP's could Crank it up at home...

Posted at 11:57AM on Feb 13th 2007 by danconnortown

12. Dont mess with solder, the pins are super small.

You can get a real dock extension here.

http://www.sendstation.com/us/products/dockextender/

Posted at 10:13AM on Feb 17th 2007 by KennyB

13. You can buy a iPod Dock Extender cable like this at:

http://www.cablejive.com

Not quite the same as the one mentioned in comment 12.

Posted at 12:43PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Mike Kruckenberg

14. For comment number 11, there is an aux input cable for the Bose SoundDock:

http://www.cablejive.com/sounddockcable.html

It doesn't do charging or other functions, but does allow you to use any audio device with the SoundDock.

Posted at 12:44PM on Feb 27th 2007 by Mike Kruckenberg

15. hi, can you make me acable

Posted at 4:19AM on Nov 18th 2007 by b marshall

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