Electronics
15-year-old teen makes personal AirPods for simply $four
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Shopping for a pair of recent AirPods would possibly sound scary as one must splurge practically $160. Nonetheless, a 15-year-old teen has brilliantly turned Apples wired EarPods into AirPods for simply $four. The teenager, a Reddit person, hacked collectively an outdated pair of wired Apple headphones and a few scorching glue right into a punk pair of DIY wi-fi earbuds.
“I began this mission roughly two months in the past when my good friend acquired a brand new pair of AirPods for his birthday and I believed to myself, ‘that’s fairly some huge cash for one thing I could make at dwelling,’” Sam Cashbook wrote in a Reddit message, the Vice reported on Saturday.
The teenager began watching movies of individuals making their very own AirPods, however principally discovered individuals chopping the wires off of Apple headphones as a joke. He purchased a hands-free bone conduction headset from eBay (which transfers the sound vibrations from the bones outdoors your ear, to the inside ear), and took aside the casing to disclose the electronics.
Then, he desoldered the wires from the unique speaker within the headset, and linked his outdated Apple earbud speaker to the headset’s printed circuit board, the report added.