{"id":407,"date":"2009-06-30T01:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T06:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2017-12-11T22:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T03:42:40","slug":"opening-up-and-tearing-down-an-ipod-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/opening-up-and-tearing-down-an-ipod-shuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Up and Tearing Down an IPOD Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening up and tearing down an IPOD Shuffle to see what’s inside…<\/p>\n

The 3rd Generation of the IPOD Shuffle is a wonder of technology….1000 songs stored in an aluminum case smaller than a disposable lighter.<\/p>\n

Did you ever wonder what electronic components make up the guts of an IPOD Shuffle?<\/p>\n

You might be surprised at what goes into the circuitry of the IPOD Shuffle. In descending order by percentage of cost, the main components are:<\/p>\n

logic, memory, metals, rechargeable materials, connectors, PCB, crystal, misc, capacitors, transistors, analog, diodes, magnetic, and plastics.<\/p>\n

Here’s a partial breakdown by number of electronic components:<\/p>\n

Capacitors<\/a> – 65+
\nResistors<\/a> – 50+
\nDiodes<\/a> – 4+<\/p>\n

Pretty amazing what goes into equipment that measures only 45.2mm x 17.5mm x 7.8mm when fully assembled! This is possible because the components are extremely small surface mount components.<\/p>\n

If you look at the cost breakdown by component family, it’s just as revealing. Naturally, the largest share is for memory in the form of IC’s. Over 70% (about $12.00 worth) is for logic and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening up and tearing down an IPOD Shuffle to see what’s inside… The 3rd Generation of the IPOD Shuffle is a wonder of technology….1000 songs stored in an aluminum case smaller than a disposable lighter. Did you ever wonder what electronic components make up the guts of an IPOD Shuffle? You might be surprised at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,25],"tags":[1027,1030,1029,13,10,1032,1031,9],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-projects","category-guides","category-newsworthy","tag-capacitors","tag-customer-projects","tag-diodes","tag-electronic-components","tag-electronics-projects","tag-guides","tag-resistors","tag-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}