Scotty Allen does it again, now adding a 3.5mm headphone jack on an iPhone 7

Scotty Allen does it again, now adding a 3.5mm headphone jack on an iPhone 7

A few weeks ago we talked about Scotty Allen, a passionate about electronics and strange parts, who on a marathon journey through the nooks and crannies and intricate corridors of parts markets in Shenzhen in China, managed to build an iPhone 6 from scratch, a feat few had dared to perform.

Now on a new adventure of more than 4 months, Scotty has made the dream of many iPhone 7 users come true, by bring back the headphone port that was denied to this model since its launch, becoming an annoying trend in the smartphone industry.

Scotty Allen does it again, now adding a 3.5mm headphone jack on an iPhone 7

Allen’s hacked iPhone 7 features a 100% functional 3.5mm headphone port

But carrying out this curious modification was not easy at all, let’s see below through everything Scotty had to go through, to achieve his mission, which he almost ended up giving up in the end.

Placing a headphone port that isn’t supposed to be there, on the iPhone 7’s extremely narrow body, turned out to be much more complex than Scotty had initially imagined, forcing him to develop your own integrated circuit with flexible materials, something that allowed him to make a kind of bridge between the lightning port and the Jack 3.5 graft that he ingeniously managed to accommodate to the side, running back the battery and other components of the phone.

Scotty Allen does it again, now adding a 3.5mm headphone jack on an iPhone 7

The circuit developed by Scotty is available as an open sourse on github

After 17 weeks of work, several sacrificed iPhone 7s, and 3 different IC designs, Scotty accomplished the seemingly impossible by putting a headphone port to work that did not originally exist on the phone. And best of all, it has left your design as open sourse on github so that the user community can use it and even improve it.

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