Ken Pillonel, robotics masters student at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School (EPFL), has managed to equip an iPhone X with a fully functional USB-C port.
Recently, the European Union announced that USB-C would be mandatory for all cellphones sold in Europe, including iPhones, but before that happened, an engineering student made it happen do what Apple has denied its iPhone for years: a USB Type-C port.
This is the first iPhone with a USB Type-C connector in history.
As the guys from Android Authority tell usKen Pillonel, a robotics masters student at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School (EPFL), has successfully converted an iPhone X equipped with a Lightning charging port in the first Apple phone with a USB-C port.
Pillonel shared the final result of this project, which has taken him several months, in a short vídeo he posted her YouTube channelwhich we leave you below these lines and where we perro see that this iPhone X with the modified charging connector is fully functional since it will become Identify the USB-C MacBook charger as the power source and in addition it also allows you to manage Data transfer vía USB Type-C cable from iPhone to notebook.
Ken Pillonel explains that he had to reverse engineer his Apple C94 connector to reach this milestone Create a custom PCB (printed circuit board) with a female USB-C connectorwhich he had to tweak several times before it fit into the iPhone’s body and worked properly.
This amazing engineering student has already confirmed that He is preparing a longer vídeo, which he will also publish on his YouTube channelin which he details all the steps that must be followed to accomplish this feat.
Apple’s historic reluctance to install a USB-C port on its iPhone seems truly inexplicable, especially when we think about it some iPad models already have this charging connectormeaning Apple engineers should already know how to implement it in future iPhones.