This article is not recommended for sensitive people, because it has all the ingredients to become everything wrong with technology. We are talking about the new occurrence of an engineer obsessed with installing a USB-C cable on the various Apple products.
I know at Apple Park in Cupertino they have a picture of him with a target. His latest idea was to turn AirPods into wired USB-C headphones. We also do not know what can lead a person to complete such a task, what we do know is that this engineer has enormous free time and a wonderful mind.
In case you had any doubts, we’re talking about Ken Pillonel, the first engineer to modify an iPhone to include a USB-C port. Afterwards, He got to work with the AirPods case, betting on putting a USB-C port on them too, but he didn’t want to stay there. You’ve taken apart, wired, and rebuilt second-generation AirPods to fit them into a working USB-C port and cabling.
That has merit, considering AirPods at the time scored a 0 out of 10 scale for repairability according to iFixit.
Anyway, Ken Pillonel saw fit for the cable to be black, creating a rather aesthetic contrast (understand the irony).
The click that motivated the engineer to carry out this task is that the batteries of his AirPods were quite deteriorated, and at the beginning the idea was to replace them, but you know, one thing leads to another… The video that was uploaded to YouTube and where we find the whole process, In case anyone wants to reproduce it, It already has nearly 20,000 visits. However, since Apple sells the Wired AirPods for $15 on Amazon, the same does not come out of us so much trouble.
