Robotics engineering pupil Ken Pillonel wowed the web final month with a wild hack that managed to place a working USB-C port inside an iPhone X for a totally purposeful USB-C iPhone. And now, Pillonel has printed a much more detailed video exhibiting simply how he managed to drag off the hack, along with a Github repository with technical particulars, CNC directions, and data on the customized PCB that he designed for anybody courageous sufficient to try to put collectively an identical hack.

The 13-minute-long video reveals off the nitty-gritty of Pillonel’s mod, which is straightforward in idea: combining a Lightning to USB-C connection collectively in a daisy chain to imitate a correct USB-C port.

The video reveals off nearly the entire growth course of. It’s fairly a journey, going from proof of idea prototypes, reverse engineering the Lightning connector (and finally, reverse engineering a faux Lightning connector), ordering a customized versatile circle board, and machining the iPhone’s case to suit the bodily bigger USB-C connector.

The video additionally reveals off simply how tough it was to suit the additional circuitry, with the board bending round each side of Apple’s Taptic Engine {hardware} to squeeze in all the mandatory elements.

Pillonel can be auctioning off his unique prototype on eBay, the place bidding has already reached $3,400 as of the time of publishing this piece, for anybody with deep pockets that’s inquisitive about a USB-C iPhone of their very own. Pillonel does word that whoever does purchase the telephone shouldn’t restore, replace, or erase it, open it, or “use it as your daily phone.”

Lastly, Pillonel has made the entire undertaking open supply in order that others can construct on his current work, whether or not that’s making extra customized USB-C iPhone X fashions or porting the design to different iPhones down the road (though the complete PCB design gained’t be posted till after the public sale completed). He additionally notes that he plans to proceed to construct on the design, with targets for bettering fast-charging, waterproofing, and even enabling USB-C equipment.