ah heck I broke my iPod mini's click wheel ribbon cable

it's an easy part to replace I just have to get another iPod mini now

oh, and I knocked that one capacitor off the board? how did that even happen

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Luckily it landed on my desk so it's just a matter of resoldering a tiny SMD part… this isn't going well

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hey, at least the CF adapter works, so now I have the world's most useless iPod mini

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