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If you are like me, you probably have a pretty nice device with a
40-pin docking connector. It's easy to forget now, but people were
really mad when Apple killed the 40-pin connector. This was because
there was a wonderful ecosystem that sprung up of really nice audio
devices that you could plug your iPod into. There were boombox-like
things, clock radios and a few folks who would mod the center console
on their cars to integrate a dock. Sure, Apple made an adapter, and it
was a sleek looking rectangle of glossy white plastic. However, it
wouldn't let the new iPhones fit well into the old docks, they would
just stick up awkwardly on their little white pedestals and threaten
to fall of when moved. Fast forward to 2020 and iTunes is gone, owning
your own music is gone and Spotify rules the world. But those old
40-pin docks with their nice glossy housings and good speakers are
still around. Most of them including the Philips Fidelio I own also
have a 3.5 mm connector so you can still hook up a phone, even if now
it probably takes a Bluetooth music adapter. I use an old Blackberry
Music Audio Gateway which still works pretty well. But there still is
that awkward steel 40-pin connector pointing up and waiting for the
iPod that no longer exists. I can't fix everything with our
subscribing-is-everything-you-own-nothing world but I can at least
help with the aesthics of your old dock.
Some time ago I put together an InkScape SVG file for lasercutting a
wooden dummy resembling iPod Classic using the Ponoko lasercutting
service. Once cut, the wooden dummy can be assembled with yellow wood
glue. You can get it at my GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/akbarnes/wood-block-classic
Art, 2020-10-24 07:55
