<story><title>Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China</title><url>https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifnir</author><text>You should check his video on this, the guy also casually bought a dremmel, a printer and a fucking microscope (stereoscope?) in the process of making this....</text></item><item><author>Kluny</author><text>&amp;gt; I went through a ton of iterations and debugging to get this to work. The hardest parts were the electrical design and getting everything to fit inside the phone.&lt;p&gt;Crikey! How many iphones did he drill holes in?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also ended up having to buy lots, and lots, and lots of spare parts. I went through 3 complete iPhone 7s, a handful of screens, and countless internal components (mostly bottom cable assemblies and taptic engines).&lt;p&gt;3. Ok, that&amp;#x27;s dedication.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  I feel like I got extremely lucky about finding space inside the phone. There was inexplicably a lot of extra room in the lower left hand corner, right where I wanted to put the headphone jack.&lt;p&gt;Suspicious... almost like their engineers left room to change their minds about the jack at the last second if they wanted to :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>theshrike79</author><text>But these are Shenzhen prices, not western retail prices.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that &amp;quot;Dremel&amp;quot; didn&amp;#x27;t cost him much over $10.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China</title><url>https://strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headphone-jack-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fifnir</author><text>You should check his video on this, the guy also casually bought a dremmel, a printer and a fucking microscope (stereoscope?) in the process of making this....</text></item><item><author>Kluny</author><text>&amp;gt; I went through a ton of iterations and debugging to get this to work. The hardest parts were the electrical design and getting everything to fit inside the phone.&lt;p&gt;Crikey! How many iphones did he drill holes in?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I also ended up having to buy lots, and lots, and lots of spare parts. I went through 3 complete iPhone 7s, a handful of screens, and countless internal components (mostly bottom cable assemblies and taptic engines).&lt;p&gt;3. Ok, that&amp;#x27;s dedication.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  I feel like I got extremely lucky about finding space inside the phone. There was inexplicably a lot of extra room in the lower left hand corner, right where I wanted to put the headphone jack.&lt;p&gt;Suspicious... almost like their engineers left room to change their minds about the jack at the last second if they wanted to :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maxerickson</author><text>On reddit he mentions shooting 225 hours of footage:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6ygqxk&amp;#x2F;guy_who_made_his_own_iphone_brings_35mm_jack_back&amp;#x2F;dmnutr2&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6ygqxk&amp;#x2F;guy_who_made...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>