Pure Hacking Sense

The iPodLinux project is an open source venture into porting Linux onto the iPod . Most of these kind of hacks have great stories to tell and this is no exception. Remember that iPod wasn't designed to run Linux and its hardware architecture is closed.
See how to extract the bootloader from the 4G iPod by sounding out ticks with the iPod's squeaky piezo. With some tweaking and a makeshift recording studio, he was able to dump the 64 kb file at 5 bytes/sec.

Click here to see more about Piezo's hack.