nycresistor.com - 8/30/2009
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The linux4nano crew has put together the Nanotron 3000 , a robot made with Lego Mindstorms for automating the brute force hacking of Apple iPod Nanos. View comments Comments
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Lego iPod hacking robot
Hack a Day —
... the 2G Nano, they still have a lot of work ahead of them. To make it easier, they’re working on automating it with button-pressing Lego Mindstorms-based robots. Dubbed Nanotron 3000, this line of robots can press the 3 buttons needed to test the iPod. Ideally, these robots should be able to go through over 23,000 addresses a day, which is much more efficient than doing it by hand. With luck, they’ll crack it soon.
Related: iPhone Linux
[via NYC Resistor]
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Nanontron 3000: The iPod Nano Hacking Lego Robot [Lego]
Gizmodo —
... for further models involves tracking down the specific part of memory their code ends up. Testing these memory locations is painstaking, and there are tens of thousands of segments, and several iPods models to test. The answer: Automate the button pressing with the Nanobot 3000. It can press three buttons if needed, operate independently overnight, and should be able to get through over 23,000 addresses a day. Clever. [Nanotron 3000 via Linux4nano via NYC Resistor via Hack A Day]
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