As some of you may know I had an incident with my iPod Video 30gb and since then it has ceased to work.  Well I thought I might as well open it up and investigate and opening the little thing proved quite easy. No screws or anything just undoing some clips and hey presto the beast was open.  Now I’m not exactly an apple fanboy but I do like the way their products look on the outside but it seems they also put good design into the inside of heir products and I was surprised when I saw how organised it looked. ** hint hint gadget designers **

Any way I fiddled about with the battery and little hard drive (see more pics on my Flickr) and gave it a bit of a dry and put it back together. I turned it on only to get the sad face troubleshooting icon which means the iPod is bust but at least I got some of it to work.

So the moral of this story is…well…have a go yourself fixing broken gadgets and if it still doesn’t work just smash it with a hammer and upload it onto youtube. Guaranteed fun.