Robotics student Ken Pillonel has posted a short video showing an iPhone with a USB-C port instead of Lightning.
It’s basically a foregone conclusion that Apple won’t be making an iPhone with USB-C, so a robotics student has made his own. In a short video posted on YouTube, Ken Pillonel, a master’s degree student in robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has shown off what looks to be an iPhone X or XS with a USB-C port where the lightning port would be. In the video, Pillonel shows the iPhone charging and transferring data when a MacBook Pro USB-C power adapter is plugged in. To switch out the port, Pillonel reverse-engineered Apple’s C94 connector on the USB-C-to-Lightning cable to make a custom printed circuit board with a female USB-C port small enough to fit inside the iPhone.
