Jalopnik: We’ve found a way to use your old cassette adapter in a cool and new way. (…) JPPadula has done some amazing entertainment tech upgrades to one of the featured rides on his user page, a 2002 GMC Denali. (…) he’s also created one of the most ingenious iPod cradle units we’ve seen. Guess what he used? That’s right, all of it’s housed in a
“…modded OEM cassette player to accept an iPod. Ipod slides in like a cassette, ejects with the factory button, Custom made Apple button controls PAC SWIX to select source on Kenwood deck using Ipod interface. All fits in OEM cassette player case, mounts like factory, all backlighting retained. Used steel stock lined with suede to make a chassis, cassette mechanism gear assembly for motorization and many hand fabricated slides and levers. Works like a dream.”
How to make your car cassette player useful again
28
Feb
2007