{"id":1073,"date":"2022-08-11T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:04:31","slug":"iopener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"iOpener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Sometime during a college summer (2001-2005) I heard about a hackable &#8220;internet appliance&#8221; you could buy from CompUSA for $100. It was intended to work only with a monthly service subscription, but it was easily convertible into a full desktop computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">So I got one, hacked it and stuffed it into my &#8217;93 Oldsmobile. We used a DOS-based MP3 player called MPXPlay which was super sweet, and at stoplights we loudly played obnoxious sounds to the delight of our neighbors in adjacent lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Xw1XeZ1rcDt74MoZ8\">https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Xw1XeZ1rcDt74MoZ8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I-Opener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I-Opener<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mpxplay\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mpxplay<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mpxplay.sourceforge.net\/\">http:\/\/mpxplay.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Sometime during a college summer (2001-2005) I heard about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}