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Sprout Pi Mainboard: I think this is such a cool way to repair and upgrade even very old iPods. (www.crowdsupply.com)
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[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sprout replaces the whole logic board and runs new software, written from scratch to behave like the original.

Sad that it's not Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Because it improves over the standard hardware. Bluetooth, WiFi, USB vs. Firewire only in some cases.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

what if your hardware dies