(UPDATE: Thanks everyone for the great replies! Also, please digg this if you like it 
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I love exploded diagrams of objects where you see every piece of the thing. I had the idea to try and make a real life version of one, and picked my iPod to be the victim. The catch was, I wanted it to work even in its exploded form.
I was a bit unhappy with the result because of the clarity of the resin. There were too many bubbles (and was an error on the last pour). At first I was just going to shelve it, but yesterday decided to at least put the photos online.
The most incredible thing about it is it still works perfectly. I encased the internals of the dock too, so it can be controlled, charged, and listened to, by a wire underneath (that sticks out a bit, hence the lego support legs).
Front view:
Side view:
Closeup side:
Bottom view:
Turned on:
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That would be one hell of a prank!
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mmm, nice especially as i know how tricky that casting resin is to work with, its pretty unpleasant stuff – I hope you wear a mask!!!
I have attached a link to the gentleman of europe site
http://www.gentlemenofeurope.co.uk/
which shows some work that I have been doing with casting resin (I have used it alot less delicately and less patiently but discovered some nice random effects)
As you say working with high volumes is potentially scary. The first piece I did was for Mondo (see link). I used a 12×12 perspex container and mixed the whole lot in one go in the backyard (volumes always confused me!!!) it started to rain so two of us moved the item into a garden shed, …1 hour later we heard a massive “crack”, i went to the shed and the heatwave accompanying the overwhelming fumes actually knocked me back!!! – The resin had super heated, contracted bending and distorting 7mm perspex (which it sticks to like noones business) and changed to a golden brown colour, this piece took over 6 months to stop “changing” – its a powerfully reactive material.
I then tried to use it properly (casting the boot and the mobile phone etc). In 2005 I removed my central heating system, split the boiler, left it outside to rust and then cast it in a solid block (see old boiler), I opted not to completely encase it for 1.Artistic reasons, 2.Money (its costly stuff) and 3. Its so very very heavy for its size, takes 3 average males to move it believe it or not!!!
Its astonishing that you can keep the ipod running, nice work
Paul Thompson
Nice! What are you going to do now when you go want to go for a pedal with your tunes? Will it fit in a fani pack? Not really portable anymore is it. Cool as crap though.
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SWEET! I want to see you second try at it!!
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You should get on line and buy some high quality resin. All your problems with resin can be solved with a little more dough. You will not need any pressure tank, just a steady pouring hand into a measuring cup. Resins can be purchased that if you pour a cloudy layer you can pour over it and it will be completely clear. Great idea, MODERN ART. Could sell at MOMA in New York for twice the cost of a real IPOD, if you can add on the warranty.
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its like balistics gel from mythbusters
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Wow could you try the same with an iPod touch? It would be interesting also to see how you will do this
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Amazing Ipod Very cold idea
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sweeeettttt
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Amazing. Where can I buy one?
so how do you turn it on and off? and what if you need to rest the darn thing?
How can I connect earphones to this iPod?
Lol it works, not the trick part is turning it off
Just wanted to repeat what everyone else has already said:
- The air bubbles do look coolio – shouldn’t have said they weren’t intentional!
- Way to go for having a vision and then putting it into action.
- Uber-top marks for making it a functional piece of work.
I know one or two people that I’d like to encase in resin. Any chance you could do this to them on a non-functional basis
Way to go.
Are you planning on having more of these. I would like to buy one
i’d pay
-hero
WWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that is really awesome yo?
It’s really crazy
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Could you try this with the iPhone? I’d love to see that
can you still sync and listen to music ?
Have you seen this game for Ipod ?
That’s great. What’s the resin, I want to ‘pot’ my head in a similar way, when I’m dead of course!!!