A new heart for your iPod

It’s been a long time since I purchased any­thing from a CrowdSupply campaign, but I open their email newslet­ters eagerly and promptly, because the projects are so unlike any­thing else in the tech tealm — hyperspecific, fully niche, a bit raw.

Case in point: here’s a modern, drop-in replace­ment PCB for old iPods — a whole new brain and heart to slip inside that classic body. What a cool idea.

Also in the latest edition: a tiny walking robot, and this whole-ass Rasp­berry Pi that fits inside a USB port and is clearly Up to No Good.

I highly rec­om­mend subscribing to the newsletter—it’s hon­estly a tonic, every project an emblem of some nerdy preoccupation. Plus, it’s hard to argue with their ral­lying cry: for “original, useful, respectful hardware”.