Do-It-Yourself Portable Music and Video Player Repairing, Upgrading and Modding

Need to upgrade or repair your portable (digital) media player? Need to fix a broken display? Want to know what chips are actually inside your mobile player? Missing a service manual? Or just in the mood of modding or hacking your mobile gadget? Here is a collection of free take apart instructions, disassembly pictures, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for mobile media players (portable media players - PMPs as well as portable video players - PVPs) for audio (MP3, Ogg Vorbis) and video (MPEG) files.

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Joe Grand, Ryan Russell, Kevin Mitnick (Editor): Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty, 2004

"Grand, president and CEO of a product design and development firm, shows how to modify personal computer and electronics equipment at the hardware level. He describes essential tools for hardware hacking and reviews electrical engineering basics, then gives instructions, illustrated with b&w photos, for modifying the CueCat, building a custom Terabyte FireWire hard drive, taking apart the Mac, hacking Atari and PlayStation 2 systems, and upgrading memory on palm devices. Final chapters overview operating systems and introduce basic concepts of coding."


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