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Meet Chiplet

Wow, it really is small

I ordered this from the computer shop on campus two weeks ago, and have been checking my email with increasing frequency ever since, looking for that joyous email telling me it's arrived. Yesterday the email finally arrived, but just my luck it came just as I was about to catch my bus, so I had to wait until today to pick it up. Whoo-boy, it's cute. So small! So light!

After entirely too much futzing with the USB I got it working. I didn't even realize that I had USB 2.0 ports on my computer, so I initially tried to plug it into the USB port on my keyboard. No good, not enough power to charge it. I then tried using a USB extender to the back ports on the iMac, but it just wasn't working. Only then did I realize they were USB 2.0 ports, and somehow the extender just wasn't compatible. After all that, it works, but man, USB 2.0 is slow compared to firewire. That, or is writing to flash memory just slower than writing to a hard disk? Anyway, minor quibble.

Posted by lld at January 27, 2005 04:59 PM

Comments

swilkes says:

Somebody just posted this on the JV forums, and I thought it was delightful:

Do Not Eat iPod Shuffle

January 28, 2005 03:58 PM

lalitree says:

I saw that this morn, I thought it was really cute.

January 28, 2005 04:03 PM

David D says:

so it works for for both but one badly? (USB 1 and 2). And what about the charges?

February 3, 2005 12:04 PM

lalitree says:

It should work on both USB 1 and 2, but I don't know--I haven't tried it on USB1.0 yet. It should charge on either one, since they're both powered buses. As far as the charge of the actual gizmo, I have been using it for days without plugging it in, and it still shows "good" charge on the indicator. Pretty sweet.

February 3, 2005 12:10 PM

Sean C says:

Yeah, writing to flash memory is a bit slower than writing to a hard drive. And if you're copying a whole lot of filez over at the same time (ie. all 512 megs/1 gig) then you'll certainly see the limitations of USB, even USB 2.0--it's technically faster than the first rev of FireWire, but in actuality it only STARTS stronger (480 mbps to FireWire's 400), but then it starts to bog down. Nertz.

February 26, 2005 10:27 PM

Geneffects says:

I don't think our Shuffles will work with Audioscrobbler! We can listen to them all we want, but it won't record the date last played and therefore won't update the site. You had this problem too?


(I found your site through Audioscrobbler - it seems we both like Evil Wiener)

March 9, 2005 11:37 PM

lalitree says:

Yep, and it looks like we're stuck on the Shuffle/Audioscrobbler front for now. Oh well, maybe someone will invent a brilliant hack to let us update someday.

Yay Evil Weiner! Do you live around here or has EW gone global? ;)

March 10, 2005 08:50 AM