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Sprout Pi Mainboard: I think this is such a cool way to repair and upgrade even very old iPods.
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amikulo slrpnk.net amikulo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-07-23
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Link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard
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Optional lemmy.world homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#2 · Quote Reply

I’ve been blocked from crowdsupply. 😞

But this was cool. https://youtu.be/xwB0ohq2xYk
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inari piefed.zip inari@piefed.zip
Joined: 2026-02-07
#3 · Quote Reply

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/
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TurboWafflz lemmy.world turbowafflz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-23
#4 · Quote Reply
inari wrote:
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/

Yeah I'm not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?
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NullPointer programming.dev nullPointer@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-10
#5 · Quote Reply

hoping for the same for the creative zen.
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Zachariah lemmy.world Zachariah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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TurboWafflz wrote:
Yeah I'm not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?

what if your hardware dies
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scrion lemmy.world scrion@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-07
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TurboWafflz wrote:
Yeah I'm not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?

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