iPod nano Becomes a Dancing Robot [VIDEO]

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Stan Schroeder
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iPod nano Becomes a Dancing Robot [VIDEO]
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A hacker called PachimonDotCom has already turned both the iPhone and the iPad into dancing robots, and now he's done it to the iPod nano. Getting the nano to display an animation was done with a simple trick, since the nano is not iOS-based and doesn't allow the installation of third party apps. It does, however, display animated GIFs, and that's how the eye animation was created.

Making the robot move was a bit trickier. As explained by PachimonDotCom, he used "the sound from headphone jack as PWM signal that controls the servo motors!" Pretty ingenious if you ask us.

Also, check out the video of the dancing iPad and iPhone below.

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