Disassembling the Wii Gift Card (But why?!?)

Our sister Apple site sometimes features iFixit‘s disassemble-an-iPod guides, a pretty cool way of seeing the guts and gore of Apple’s baby. We’ve had the PS3’s guts splayed out, and some of us are just waiting for the Wii’s chance to show off its assets. But why in heaven’s name would anyone want to disassemble the Target Wii Gift Card? Ask friedpope at Instructibles.com.

We’ll leave the details over to him@Instructibles, pictures from Instructibles are below, you know the drill. Still, aside from curiosity’s sake, WHY? Isn’t the card supposed to be intact to be used as a gift card of a given number of currency? Apparently, this little idea inspired a few ideas of their own, both from friedpope and comments at Instructibles.

• Change the LED colors. Instead of glowing blue, try glowing yellow, or green, or purple.
• Attach a lanyard.
• Add a PIC micro-controller to control the lights.
• Says one comment, throw in the guts of a small MP3 player (like the Shuffle?) in the enclosure, and call it a “WiiPod.” (Warning: you may be sued by Apple for diluting the patent-pending trademark “Pod.” No kidding).
• Except that runs into the problem of power consumption. You see, the Gift Card’s powered by three G10A (LR54) coin batteries. Is that enough juice to run an MP3 player?

Just make sure that whatever Gift Card you’re disassembling, it isn’t holding currency of an indeterminable amount, a’ight?

More shots at the full article.

Our sister Apple site sometimes features iFixit‘s disassemble-an-iPod guides, a pretty cool way of seeing the guts and gore of Apple’s baby. We’ve had the PS3’s guts splayed out, and some of us are just waiting for the Wii’s chance to show off its assets. But why in heaven’s name would anyone want to disassemble the Target Wii Gift Card? Ask friedpope at Instructibles.com.

We’ll leave the details over to him@Instructibles, pictures from Instructibles are below, you know the drill. Still, aside from curiosity’s sake, WHY? Isn’t the card supposed to be intact to be used as a gift card of a given number of currency? Apparently, this little idea inspired a few ideas of their own, both from friedpope and comments at Instructibles.

• Change the LED colors. Instead of glowing blue, try glowing yellow, or green, or purple.
• Attach a lanyard.
• Add a PIC micro-controller to control the lights.
• Says one comment, throw in the guts of a small MP3 player (like the Shuffle?) in the enclosure, and call it a “WiiPod.” (Warning: you may be sued by Apple for diluting the patent-pending trademark “Pod.” No kidding).
• Except that runs into the problem of power consumption. You see, the Gift Card’s powered by three G10A (LR54) coin batteries. Is that enough juice to run an MP3 player?

Just make sure that whatever Gift Card you’re disassembling, it isn’t holding currency of an indeterminable amount, a’ight?