Student Posts Instructions Online to Fit iPhone with USB-C Port – Tablets & Phones – .Geeks

Apple sticks to its Lightning connector for its iPhones. Ken Pillonel, a master’s student of robotics, was tired of waiting for a USB-C variant and converted his iPhone X himself. He has now extensively documented that process in a video and on GitHub.

Last month, Pillonel released its custom iPhone X with a working USB-C port see briefly, but now he has also put extensive documentation online for those who want to equip an iPhone with the universal port. That’s not an easy job evidenced by his YouTube video and the GitHub Documentation.

The USB-C port in the iPhone is a modified Lightning to USB connection, which is completely hidden in the smartphone. For that, Pillonel had to: reverse engineering apply to the Lightning port and make your own pcb with components that fit between the battery and the Taptic Engine.

In the video, the master’s student describes his method, from proof-of-concept to prototypes and working out the ideas and adapting the iPhone housing to fit the larger USB-C port.

The modified iPhone has a working USB-C connection, which can charge the phone and allow data transfer. The modder says he wants to improve his design even further to allow faster charging and the use of USB-C accessories. Pillonel chose the iPhone X because he could get it cheaply. The copy, the ‘world’s first iPhone with USB-C’, does he auction on eBay.

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