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Sprout Pi Mainboard – A modern, RP2350-powered motherboard for iPods

Hacker News · securityby esskay ()4 min read5 · 2 reads
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Sprout Pi is an RP2350 replacement board adding Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and USB-C to older iPods.

Sprout Pi is a proposed open-source replacement logic board for third- and fourth-generation iPods and the iPod mini. The RP2350-based Sprout Pico plays local libraries, while Sprout Pi adds a Raspberry Pi Compute Module Zero for streaming. Planned features include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a Cirrus Logic DAC, USB-C, and microSD storage up to 2 TB. Hardware and software are intended to be released under CERN-OHL-S, MPL-2.0, and CC BY 4.0.

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From the original article

4 min read at crowdsupply.com

Sprout Pi Mainboard is a new, replacement PCB for the iPod 3rd generation, 4th generation, and iPod mini. You open the iPod, lift out the original board, and drop Sprout in its place. The case, screen, and click wheel all stay, so it looks and feels the way it always did.

Hacker News · security

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