Sunday, December 11, 2011

The iPod Chromini - 32GB iPod mini

my own creation, or rather recreation, of the iPod mini. I saved battery time, conserved weight and increased my storage by replacing the original 4GB mini hard drive with a 32GB solid state compact flash card.
Incased in a polished aluminum shell. Painted end caps flat black, to match the custom fitted iPod Video 4th gen click wheel.















Posted by Gino Michael Santaguida at 7:11 PM
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 19, 2013 at 8:05 AM

    how did you get the black clickwheel to work?
    is it the same dimensions? did you have to work some magic with the ribbon cable? i know this is like 2 years old here's hoping you read it. I saw this on flikr too, your art is awesome.

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  2. 5aibotJune 15, 2014 at 5:00 AM

    really cool! waiting for my pink (ewww!) ipod to arrive, gonna do just this but will leave the top, bottom cover and click wheel as it is.

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  3. UnknownOctober 20, 2018 at 1:18 AM

    You may not see this but I just recently attempted this and succeeded, just use an iPod 5th generation click wheel separate the click wheel from the ribbon cable sensor, do the same for the iPod mini one as well unscrew four screws and carefully stick a guitar pick between the plastic front cover and the motherboard of the iPod mini click wheel and it will come loose and don't forget to unplug the ribbon cable that is connected to that itself. Next you will Dremel the iPod 5th generation click wheel to be almost as flat as the one that came off of the Mini, after you do both the click wheel and the button if the double-sided tape that's attached to the board is still good I would recommend use that or get very thin cell phone adhesive. That is how you do it

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  4. AnonymousMarch 24, 2024 at 12:14 AM

    Could you please tell me how you polished the housing. I love the look 🙂

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