Internal bluetooth for 5th gen iPods

Posted Feb 21st 2008 4:04PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: ipod hacks

[Ed] sent in his latest iPod modding effort. Previously he did this on a 4th gen, and now he's following that up with a 5th gen version. He found an even smaller bluetooth module for the mod, but it requires replacing the hard drive with a compact flash card to make room inside the case if you want to keep the original back cover.

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1. the bandwidth on bluetooth is really low, meaning sound quality suffers. so although it's a useful hack, the benefits come with drawbacks.

Posted at 5:16PM on Feb 21st 2008 by jim

2. true, Bluetooth stereo is not hi-fi audio but works great for the gym and anywhere else you don't want to get tangled up in wires.

Posted at 6:18PM on Feb 21st 2008 by Ed Hernandez

3. cool. if only i didn't dislike ipods. i could see getting a used ipod for the bluetoothing and having it as file storage.

Posted at 7:44PM on Feb 21st 2008 by Josh

4. Has anyone taken apart one of these stereo-to-bluetooth adapters before? I am hoping to make a dongle for my Pacemaker (www.pacemaker.net) when it comes in the mail, but the PCB in this guide still looks too big. Any suggestions?

Posted at 9:01PM on Feb 21st 2008 by Angelo Brisimitzakis

5. he should have used this bluetooth adaptor:

http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15542

Posted at 3:03AM on Feb 22nd 2008 by m

6. ummm
regarding the bluetoothing as a file storage comment. yeah, that wouldnt work. this is adding bluetooth for headphones, not a serial data to bluetooth converter. im curious if you could actually do decent data trasfers using the onboard serial over bluetooth using ipod linux.

Posted at 9:39AM on Feb 22nd 2008 by Dane

7. m: that adapter is impressive but you'd need to run linux and figure out how to get USB host capability working.

http://ipodlinux.org/USB

Also I have no idea what kind of processing power encoding would take.

Posted at 2:16PM on Feb 22nd 2008 by jproach

8. Has anyone looked at adding SD capability as opposed to the CF? Or even a mini SD raid type setup? I know you can get CF to SD or Pro Duo adapters too, there is even a pro duo to dual SD for PSP, could that be used?

Posted at 9:01PM on Feb 27th 2008 by Bitz

9. Nice Stuff... Keep It Up.

Posted at 6:28AM on Feb 28th 2008 by Eliseo

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