Battery charger for shuffle
I recently saw on The Screen Savers a thing on how to make a battery charger for a regular iPod. I was wondering how exactly I would go about making one for my shuffle.
is there a site with instrustions on how make the regular ipod charger? if so could you please post it? thanks.
Yep, that's the one I saw them show on The Screen Savers. So, any idea on how to make one work on the shuffle?
Make one what work with the shuffle? The first link I posted is an actual shuffle charger. The second is a FireWire one. They're not interchangeable; USB offers significantly different power output than FireWire. If you want a shuffle charger, build one like in the first link.
Sorry, didn't see that. Thanks for your help.
On the chargers matter. Do you think it would be easy, better, safer to build one of these but connect it straight to a dock connector? I have found a source for these atm that I can probably figure out and it would be slightly neater. I have heard of iPods being fried by badly wired Firewire ports in these but if you just checked it with a multimeter then itd be all good right?
thanks in advance
maelgwn
iMac 350 10+30gb 384mb and Linux iPod 3G 
If you've made on of these chargers for the shuffle, and used a USB extension cable, you've got a male USB port on the other end of the cable that you didn't use. Solder a small, white LED to the male usb plug (on the 'cable' side), and you've got a mini flashlight you can power by the charger. This may sound silly, but i've been in enough situations where i've had to use my cell phone, or iPod as a flashlight when the powers gone out in a hotel.
(btw, i've got a working prototype, took me about 5 minutes to hack together)
For the Shuffle, you just need a 5V power supply and a USB cable. For other ipods, use a 12V power supply and a firewire cable (though finding the dock conenctor could be troublesome.)
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/111/94/
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