A very clever and crafty kid just threw a hell out of Apple's engineers. He himself has made what could be a new iPod cheaper than the current iPod touch. With the original design of the fourth generation iPod from 2004, but with the features needed today: wifi, bluetooth and Spotify Incorporated.
The truth is that seeing the headline, I was very impressed, and I had no choice but to watch the video of the author of this feat to see how the hell he did it. Is awesome. Read on if you want to find out.
If they tell you that a boy has taken a 2004 iPod, and has modified it to add connection by wifi and bluetooth and thus be able to play songs from Spotify, you say it is impossible. But if you see that he has posted a video showing it, then you want to watch it to find out how the hell he made it possible.
IPod's quarter Generation, released in 2004, had a very small monochrome screen, with no wireless connections, where you could only play MP3s saved on its storage memory.
Guy Dupont, doing a great job of engineering In both hardware and software, he has modified an iPod from that era. Now it has a color screen, bluetooth and wifi connections, and software to play Spotify. Almost nothing.
Such a "miracle" has a simple explanation. It has only kept the original casing. Inside it has installed a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a small screen and a 1.000 mAh internal battery. You have installed a version of Spotify that resembles the original iPod interface, and is running.
In the video that he has posted on his channel YouTube, Dupont explains the manufacturing process of its "sPot", as well as the software it has used, in case you want to start making one. I'm not going to do it, of course.