This picture shows the rough-in before I made it look nice. I soldered it in by soldering the old mounting holes directly to the casing of the connector. Seems sturdy enough. I might put a piece of foam in there to help hold it in place, take any excess pressure off the PCB.

I used this connector from Amazon, and soldered in my own 5.1k resistor to make it compatible with USB C PD chargers. I hate devices that leave that resistor out. Very annoying.

It’s crazy, this thing was made in 2012. USB C wasn’t even ratified until 2014. The first name brand Android didn’t have it until 2016 2015. And here I’ve drug it into the future. Cool stuff!

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Edit: fixed date.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Cool idea and amazing you got it to work! I assume it’s only for charging purposes?

    • beastlykingsOPEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      Thanks! Yeah power only, the data lines are disconnected.

      Though I had an idea of hiding a thumb drive or badUSB device in there somewhere, just to surprise anyone who ever tried putting it into a computer.

      Nothing malicious, just fun. But eh 🤷‍♂️