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Build Your Own Waterproof iPod Video Boombox
Posted by Adrian Covert at 4:45 AM on August 24, 2008
Popular Mechanics has a great DIY feature, showing you how to build a waterproof video boombox for your iPod. Making use of an iPod touch, some old speakers, an 8" personal video player screen, video cables, gorilla tape and a hard camera case, Anthony Verducci has created a waterproof video case for the iPod that he believes is the first to float.
It seems the hardest part of the process was getting all the cables to interface with eachother. Working with Apple's composite cables, an old AV iPod dock, and the inputs for the video player, soldering was required to get them all on the same page. The rest was mostly handiwork and a bit of elbow grease. Sure, the final product isn't exactly practical, but it is fun and imaginative. Check out the full video here. [Popular Mechanics]
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takashimiike Ultimate
Posted 4:55 AM 24/8/08
@The Lab: Me too!
takashimiike Ultimate
The Lab
Posted 4:49 AM 24/8/08
Oh man this is cool, now all I need is a reason to have a waterproof video boombox!
The Lab
chizelord
Posted 5:48 AM 24/8/08
I got this issue of PM about a month ago. I thought It was a cool concept but havnt really tried it yet. Don't know why I would want one of these.
chizelord
glaeven
Posted 5:44 AM 24/8/08
i thought this was for an ipod video. way to disappoint.
glaeven
markarian
Posted 6:22 AM 24/8/08
This is one of those "special" DIY projects that can set you back almost as much as it would cost to just buy it outright.
markarian
GadgetPlay
Posted 6:32 AM 24/8/08
But it's for an iPod...and it FLOATS!!!!
GadgetPlay
strider_mt2k
Posted 6:25 AM 24/8/08
@glaeven: Actually Pelican makes small cases with transparent lids also, so the need for this is...not so much.
strider_mt2k
strider_mt2k
Posted 6:25 AM 24/8/08
Main ingredient: Pelican Case.
strider_mt2k
Adrian Covert
Posted 6:58 AM 24/8/08
@glaeven: i dont see why a video ipod wouldnt work as well.
Adrian Covert
CaptCaveman
Posted 8:59 AM 24/8/08
And for even more fun. Try to take that as carry on luggage on your next flight.
Make sure you have someone with a video camera standing just out of view when you put it through the x-ray machine.
CaptCaveman
man in gauze is king ramses II, actually
Posted 10:08 AM 24/8/08
I like how saying "old" in front of something pretty much guarantees that you're going to junk it in the process. Anyway, this looks pretty spiffy, fun to use in the shower.
man in gauze is king ramses II, actually
ryanobo66
Posted 10:44 AM 24/8/08
I made the same thing: put the touch in a plastic bag (or two, to be safe) and it floats, is water proof, and you can still use the touchscreen!
ryanobo66
The Magnificen7
Posted 10:41 PM 24/8/08
@ryanobo66: Yeah... that makes sense... are these plastic bags perhaps, uh, life rafts?
The Magnificen7
cmantito
Posted 2:22 PM 25/8/08
@ryanobo66: I've used this concept myself a few times -- I dock my iPod in some speakers in the bathroom and listen in the shower, put the remote in a ziplock baggie and use it to control the iPod from the shower.
cmantito
photojohn
Posted 11:26 AM 25/8/08
What more can I say... some serious work, but I would just buy one of the pre-made ipod Pelican Cases
:()
photojohn
photojohn
Posted 11:24 AM 25/8/08
Ha.. Seems like a lot of work for something you can pretty much buy off the shelf. Just ordered a Pelican ipod case online and it was cheap. Great post though.... Looks like you put you're heart into it.
Got mine at The Pelican Store
photojohn