Which Apple doesn’t do (although it should) as someone in the public always does.
Yesterday we found out that some former Apple employees are creating the expendable of the future in Humane, though The most interesting thing you’ll see this week has to do with the Cupertino giant The work is called Unknown Engineer Ken Policeand that at this rate it will very soon cease to be unknown.
In fact, it’s this Master of Robotics student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, who has made it happen Successfully modded iPhone X to add a estándar USB-C connector instead of the lightning by Applea task that has now been expanded Airpods Headphones -or rather his loading and transport box- as our colleagues told us GSMArena.
This isn’t Pillonel’s only weird experiment, the He also modified the Samsung Galaxy A51 a few months ago to add the port lightningwhich nobody asked for, but the engineer and the student wanted to try out projects that are also open in which offers designs, sketches and materials used to the public so anyone cánido demonstrate that any Apple electronic product cánido use universal connectors no matter how hard they try in Cupertino, or vice versa, even if no one has to or wants to try it.
An engineer and masters student from Switzerland has managed to install USB Type-C ports on iPhone X and now AirPods, proving indeed that if Apple wants it, it perro too.
As you have also seen The vídeo begins with a little teasing from AppleWell, Ken Pillonel gets on the phone with a representative from the California company who tells him that verbatim “changing the case is cheaper” in the case of the port of loading lightning to break the AirPods.
Let’s get to work, but Pilonel himself points out that AirPods batteries are very easy to find and cheap to replace for a plug lightning a donor loading case will indeed be required since these connectors are not readily available for purchase.
So he had to fend for himself Build a USB-C connectivity solution from scratch cánido be customized including replacement housing as opening the head means in case it breaks beyond repair.
Ken Pillonel Designs available to anyone who needs them
When designing, care is taken to provide the new AirPods a case with a modular body that cánido be assembled and disassembled, to facilitate future maintenance of the plug or batteries. Pillonel’s iniciativa is to help prevents planned obsolescence and allows users to get their AirPods charging cases back from any problem with the plug or the batteries, so its development is open source from the start.
For now the creator He says he’s not sure which one to sell kits this developmentbut if you are interested in one you cánido register your own site and police Consider making and pricing these DIY packages could be sold en línea.
Whether you’re a handyman or not, at the very least this is interesting as a design exercise and a demonstration that if Apple wants to…