bigOCTOPUS Summer Project: iOctopus - Day One

Right, so, I've recently acquired a brand new iPod nano [8gb] as a gift. It's one of those lovely video - music blaring things - quite nice really. However, my current iPod, which is quite an elderly first generation 4gb iPod mini. It was about time the thing stepped down as my number one mp3 player really. It's near enough dead, the battery doesn't even last a single bus journey and let me tell you bus journey's in London are horrible.

So, the project? Well, my plan is to blow dry the shell open, slide everything out in hope that nothing damages. [Not that it matters if it does with the pathetic excuse of a battery, although that can be replaced.] So back to the plan, I will then spray paint the shell white, give it a nice glossy 'Shock White' coat and then I will follow this up by customising with some nice acrylic pens. I will then gloss over the casing and slot and glue back on. Hopefully it will look nice and I will keep track of the project via this blog.

I think it could go well and the bloody thing, if I can afford to replace the battery will increase in intrinsic value at least. Below are the two iPod's in comparison, I don't know, they're both nice.