Then open sources how to get it done.
Ken Pillonel may be known as the guy who built the world's first iPhone with a USB-C port. Going forward though, he will likely be known as the person who made Apple AirPods repairable.After his USB-C iPhone went viral on the internet, Pillonel focused his attention on building the inverse, an. A few weeks ago, he also released a sneak peek for his next engineering project, AirPods with a USB-C port.
When you might have begun to think that the engineer had become somewhat predictable in his projects, Pillonel took up the real big challenge of making the AirPods repairable. in 2021. Users of the device may swear by the quality of its audio and its ability to respond to the slightest of taps and pinches. Still, Apple's runaway success is also a tragedy for the environment.
The company that takes pride in not shipping power bricks with the latest iterations of its phone for environmental reasons has also designed the AirPods to be unserviceable. The sleek-looking case of the AirPods provides no opportunity to access hardware components without splitting the device cover. The hardships endured in repairing the device case are so many that repair specialists, iFixit, rate both the models of AirPods at a 0 out of a possible 10, the lowest score a device can ever get.
Pillonel has put open sourced the design so that anybody can make these cases using a simple 3D printer, thereby opening up the AirPods to service options as well. The engineer knows that a technical audience may enjoy his videos. For the non-tech savvy in the audience looking to give a new lease of life to their AirPods, Pillonel says,"
if a non-tech-savvy person can get their hands on what I have designed, then they just need a knife and a screwdriver to give a second life to their device.
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