UPDATE: New video is out! I did pretty much for the same for the AirPods Pro, and you can even buy the kit! th-cam.com/video/DBoQKGbL6Yc/w-d-xo.html shop.kenp.io
The issue with your "repair" and replace project.... it was now even more wasteful than buying a new AirPods case :D Apple know at least how to produce it efficient in mass.
@@harrison00xXx Tell me, when you were inside a classroom, did you voice your opinions? Or did it just start the moment you could do it anonymously on the internet? I'm pretty sure your opinions weren't supposed to leave your headspace because they haven't matured yet. A couple of reasons why I think that: - Mass production doesn't counter waste. Thinking it does gives out the impression you've lost your sanity. - Shipping over/buying a new Airpods case entails: Getting the raw materials (all over the world), manufacturing it in China (slave labor + child labor), packaging it for a long bumpy ride, Sending it over by plains,trucks,boats,... (carbon footprint), ... before it ends up at your door. - You've compared the things I've mentioned above, to creating your own case with materials you already have lying around on a machine you already own. I hope this makes you understand how ridiculous your comment really is. If not, good luck buddy... you're going to need it :)
@@harrison00xXx I am very happy YOU are saying that instead of a sane person. Also, great job on avoiding every single argument given. Shows real character.
"We are committed to reducing waste" paraphrased from Apple when they stopped selling the phones with the charger adding more trash from packaging and while still opting for replacement rather than fixing.
you know apple recycles this things right? it makes more eco sence to recycle old device and buy new one than to order 10 parts from around the world to make frankenstein device out of your airpods that will work extra 2 months and eventually break all the same, congrats you just created more waste for not much more benefit. Also newer devices have better features etc. apple recycles this things in millions their new devices are literally made from recycled aluminium, plastic etc
There will be critics saying: "Yeah but I don't have a 3D printer or spot welder -- and Apple is right that all this labor and these materials are more expensive than a new product" This is NOT about forcing every consumer to spend weeks in their garage trying to fix their own broken electronics! This is about allowing enterprising individuals to start repair shops, it's about allowing creative people to refine/automate the process even further so it becomes competitive, it's about eventually refurbishing/modding items in bulk with 3rd party kits. This effort, and fact that the schematics are open, is a giant leap forwards!
It’s the vision of a curious mind to create more opportunities for others potential but there’s either not enough people on the same mindset or a lot of us just have no way of connecting with that same goal in mind at the time. A lot of people lose motivation to put this type of effort into what they do so fast I’m assuming, so what they could’ve envisioned becomes clouded. It’s sad to think but it’s all the more reason for people such as him to put out his talent and inspiration to others
If the labour and material to repair damaged air pods is too much, how fricking cheap are they to make in the first place? If it takes a repair person who gets paid $40 an hour, 1 hour to fix the airpods, and replacement parts are a few cents, and it's still cheaper to replace the product, how does Apple justify charging $300+ Canadian for airpods? I actually know the truth, marketing and suckers. Right to repair doesn't matter to Apple fanbois, they've been marketed to, and bought in hook line and sinker.
The depressing thing about this is when Apple see this they won't go hey should we consider making our devices even slightly serviceable by having replicable batteries. No they'll go how can we lock out these repaired AirPod chargers. What extra hardware and thus cost can we add to this device to make it less user friendly. I own only 1 Apple product an 80gig Ipod Video which has Rockbox on so no iTines nonsense and I have zero interest in buying anything else due to this kind of thing. Although it's hardly like Samsung are selling easily repaired devices. I sound like Victor Meldrew.
I wish I was a teenager again. If I had seen this guy when I was 16, I would be learning everything I could from him and make a career of it. What an amazing skillset you have. Truely inspirational.
@@jamesrruff Indeed I am, problem is free time. When I was a teenager, I had the time needed to learn this stuff... once you get a full-time job, kids, house, car, etc... there is always something that needs attention and leaves you with just enough time to brush your teeth and pass out at the end of the day. As you get older, every new thing you attempt means giving up something you are currently doing :(
I am 58 and upskilling. Electronics, pcb design, 3d printing, low level coding even. It's fun! But yeah, I don't have to babysit all day. Wasn't that a woman's job? Oh yeah the enlightened young ones did away with that. Ah well, what's left is dreams of what could be.
it's impressive how such a tech giant is doing this and not being held accountable in any way. The process of making things reusable and not end up causing waste to pile up should start from the very source and be enforced.
Because the left, which touts to be the champion for the environment doesn't really give a shit about the environment. Majority of them are braindead zombies regurgitating what the MSM and their hero politicians are spewing at any given moment. One week it's a march for women, the next is for climate change, and the following is the women's right to healthcare. Then they all go back to their own little world and search for what other issue they want to protest about.
I thought I was patient and persistent with such projects and repairs over the past fifty years . However, my hat is off to you, my friend! I have never seen such dogged determination and ultimate excellent quality results. You have inspired me to seek the next level. You may have very well “taught an old dog new tricks”! Thank you!
Best comment from an old head I've ever seen!!!! In the history of all TH-cam comments!!! Finally someone in the upper age supporting someone doing good and not bad!
@@arnandegans They do, they are just paid to intentionally design the products in a way that limits serviceability so users are required to re-purchase if anything goes wrong.
Creating an open source strategy is the best way around everyday problems.The fact it’s being done by an ambitious young guy says even more about him.If everyone practiced his ethics we wouldn’t find ourselves in so many dilemmas.Good on you!!
"Designing to leave the world better than we found it." "The fight against climate change is a fight for economic equality." "We’re investing in some wild ideas for carbon removal." "Good for you. Good for the planet." "We consider our impact on people and the planet in everything we do. And we continue to ask ourselves how we can make our work an even greater force for good in the world." "The proof is in the products." Straight from Apple's website. - Lies!
@@rustinpeace770 Doesn't matter if it lasts less time than the battery, plus usb-c allows you to only carry one charger ! Even apple uses it on most products now
Amazing work. While these are luxury items, or toys to some, it proves why we need to keep fighting to pass "Right to repair" in as many countries as possible. These are designed as disposable technology, it is wasteful and damaging, not to mention annoying. Keep up the great work.
I find it interesting how we're talking about this while Apple, along with other corporations, outsource labor to the CCP that utilizes Chinese Uhyger reeducation through labor camps (often with rape and torture) in order to strip them of their Muslim ethnic background and make them more accepting of Chinese authority. Don't get me wrong 'right to repair' is really important. But Right to... * checks notes * Human Rights is a little bit more fundamental, and I think it's insane how it isn't talked about and railed against more often.
People like you give me hope, that one day we will be able again to repair everything. We only need more open spaces with help to actually do it. When I see your workshop, there is much I don't have at home and would be great for a shared community.
bro? yeah it's ecological concern, when your airpods break you can take them to apple and they will recycle it for free and you can buy new ones? I don't get it where the problem is, there was no extra effort batteries just naturally die :) it is cheaper to recycle millions of airpods instead of fixing them, this guy is just making money out of no problem -by seling repair kits + making yt video, its good entertainment but I see no logic to your comment. you are wrong in every point 1) no apple doesn't care about natura they don't include chargers cus its cheaper and 2) no they don't do extra efort so its needlessly disposable it is just better to buy new ones that are better, newer,... apple makes money, you get better product and old ones get recycled instead of makign a frankenstein device that will work exstra 2 months
Kid you're brilliant! You would be an asset for any tech company. I pray you make millions and keep helping your fellow man along the way. Love that you kept it open source as 1 last FU to Apple. Your video proves that determination pays off! I wish you best of luck in the future.
He wouldn’t be an asset, he’d be a liability for creating sustainable products rather than products that have to replaced every two years which is far more profitable and profits keeps the board and shareholders happy.
While the end result was USB-C Airpods case, the spark of innovation that came and the right to self repair is the real treasure here. Keep this up, content like this is key to showing that people can figure things out.
Amazing work. Excellent way of highlighting how companies still have a design for the dump mentality and that we must change that to be sustainable in our way of living 🙌
@@bekerashes Oh yes, we can, and we do. Russia didn't went ont to conquer Ukraine, they went on to utterly destroy it from the map so as to not ever give it the possibility of getting accepted into NATO (among other things) since they were refused (duh, NATO was made to essential fight them). BTW when the Red Cross offered to take care of the bodies or Russian soldiers, Putin said no. That's how much he cares about his own people. So yeah we're going to f*** support sending weapons to Ukraine. Is it a perfect country? No, it's been in a civil war since 2014. Is the current President's son involved in corruption there? I'd say without the shadow of a doubt. And? Who are we to let them get massacred because of what essentially is the biggest diplomatic mistake of the 21th century so far? Ukraine got wrecked because we offered them a position in NATO without caring about them enough to fight for them. We f*** up and then we're going to let them die like so many other countries.
Instant sub! You're an amazing problem solver, and I love that you have both the environment and the consumer in mind. Keep up your fantastic work! To open source this is the way to go, and you are very thoughtful to share the solution you must have been working on for a while. Peace, love and looooads of respect from a Swede in Norway!
Wow, awesome! I love it that you're out there fighting "planned obsolescence." I'm constantly amazed that such an evil corporate practice has such a high level of acceptance (or tolerance). I really do want a phone (or whatever) that will last me ten years...why can't I just get that? ...subscribing.
Unless the Americans dismantle the Corporate State, the country is doomed. There is no democracy when politicians - Presidents and Congress - are beholden to their corporate masters. These Wall Street Robber Barons spawned the corporate coup and the machinery of State Terror. The Americans will continue to pay - yet more and more - for their complacency: for believing all they need to fix their world is the right vote. The will continue to pay for looking the other way when the government is caught decade after decade managing the international drug trade, running pedophile sex rings, for toppling democratic governments and installing criminal despots & dictators, and for operating as an international criminal cartel. The Americans are Trapped like Rats in a Cage. Voting changes nothing when the system is nourished by corporate monopoly graft and overruled by the National Security State. [Why can’t we see the CIA JFK documents when a law was unanimously created to force their full and unobstructed release?] There are so many corporate parasites that the host is dying fast. In short: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” Corporate bribery of politicians is legal in the USA What else can we expect? Every Administrations top positions are for sale: Even under Trump, the man that caused insulin pricing to go from $10 to $400 became head of Health and Human Services; the coal industry briber is now the chief of the EPA; etc In the USA, drug pricing is a crime against humanity! For instance: generic Ibrutinib costs $86 in Australia. However, the same drug in the USA costs over $22,000 USD! Imagine the total cost to the patient requiring several rounds of Ibrutinib plus Obinutuzumab! Drug monopolies have (legally) bribed politicians [1] - And now use the powers of “life & death” to extort patients. Former president Jimmy Carter said on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.” Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United; and later McCutchen, 569 U.S. 88, 133 S. Ct. 1537, 185 L. Ed. 2d 654, 81 U.S.L.W. 4236 (2013), which greatly expanded political bribery by corporate monopolies & billionaires. [Also Buckley v. Valeo, the landmark case involving the constitutionality of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA); and, First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978), is a U.S. constitutional law case which defined corporate bribery as a free speech right of corporations!] Transcript: firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/
@@zakil89 Lmao yea. Planned obsolesce my ass, it's just a product not designed to be replaced. 80% of people aren't going to special order a battery, then take apart it, unhook the electrical, then replace the battery, and fix it all up again, they'll just replace it.
why do you want a phone that lasts 10 years? makes no sense. its much better to just buy new better one and recycle old one. No need for the phone to be fixable. you can enjoy new product, apple makes money. if you are trying to be some sort of a "buda god mastermind ecological genius sure bro you do you, go live in a forest and be naked.
If you're in Europe, you could get a Fairphone. They're modular, so instead of buying a new one every couple years, you can just upgrade it, if you want to.
Excellent work! There is much to love about Apple, but their habit of waffling on about how environmentally friendly they are while simultaneously going out of their way to design products so they cannot be repaired or even have the batteries replaced is unacceptable. Apple has the might that other companies don't have to push the entire industry toward more environmentally responsible production. Projects like this are a great way to dismiss Apple's claims that they are doing their best.
I went into an apple store about my 12 mini because the battery is crap. Instead of a replacement under warranty they waffled on about ‘habit changes’. I honestly hate this company. I only got it cuz the small screen. Might move back to Samsung…
They're also fairly easy to hack (hunter biden, anyone?) overpriced to hell and back, and _pretend_ to have data privacy features. Air Tags, more than any other product they gouge you for, are the most antithetical to the very concept of privacy itself. They're literally "always-on" tracking devices
@@mccvargues7792 The case maybe. But the PCB, no way in hell. Did Apple design the PCB for the USB-C adapter? Nope they used lightning. Doesn't matter what I plug my shit into. Also open source does not protect from copyright infringement or any other legal bindings my dude.
10 million views for this vid! And I truly hope there will be a big aftermarket community for airpods and similar things. The tech inside these little things is amazing (the chips) and we are forced to throw them away for profits? Heck no.
Again I posted "Used Airpods 2G case are under $80". What ever aftermarket solution would either cost the same in material and your time or the results would be subpar at best.
I’m just now seeing this video. From what you’ve shown and done for your case, and future people that need repairs, you’re bringing up this topic the in the most robust yet smart way for how much we need repairable tech. I’m glad you made you’ve made this not only a possibility, but able to hand out this help 👍👍👍
And this is why I’ve majored in Mechanical Engineering Technology. It’s videos like these that never fail to open my eyes to possibility, there are so many applications of engineering and design that it boggles me. Great stuff.
You introduced a new business opportunity to Apple for free and an inspiration goldmine to the rest of us. Resin printers usually give the better results so I prefer them versus the PLAs. I now have so many ideas since I have first gen pods and I think they will be discontinued in the next years. I like how compact (pillbox) they are next to the 2nd gen. Good vid!
Can you please design a solution for the Apple Pencil 1 and 2? There's no way to replace their battery without destroying their case. They're also wonderful devices, with instant response time, and it such a waste discarding them after the battery dies.
"Designing to leave the world better than we found it." "The fight against climate change is a fight for economic equality." "We’re investing in some wild ideas for carbon removal." "Good for you. Good for the planet." "We consider our impact on people and the planet in everything we do. And we continue to ask ourselves how we can make our work an even greater force for good in the world." "The proof is in the products." Straight from Apple's website. - Lies!
@@JoshMutia If said company makes airpods: yes; but if that company makes their own product apple wouldn't have any jurisdiction. But we'll probably never see earbuds with repleacable battery, because that could only happen with a niche company that nobody cares about, meaning that the product will most likely fail (also thanks to the increased price, due to the fact that they are from a small company).
I love everything about this. Well done. It’s not just AirPods but most wireless ear buds are designed to be ‘disposable’ once their batteries lose capacity. I haven’t found one that I’d buy yet. Will just have to keep fixing up my AirPods repeatedly. Btw What microscope is that??
So cool! I'm a software engineer and I saw so many parallels from the process of solving purely coding problems to what you were doing. And then you open sourced it! Please encourage people to start businesses using this solution (and inspiring them to find more solutions now that you've shown it's possible).
You’re awesome for doing this. While companies like Apple make fantastic products, it makes no sense that a user can’t repair (or have someone repair) the product they paid a lot of money for. You also raised a great point about the waste. How can these companies say they’re being environmentally conscious only to force consumers of their products to have throw away ones that could’ve been repaired.
it makes perfect sense that you cant repair. it means you HAVE to buy a new one. the only reason they say that its more expensive to repair than replace is becaus they made it so intentionally. fuck apple.
Meanwhile my first gen Galaxy buds can be easily opened and repaired, Apple does everything in their power for you to not be able to repair your own devices.
@@BloPsy_Actual I have a question though, are newer galaxy buds repairable or did they change them to be like the airpods, kind of like how Samsung phones became unrepairable just like apple phones
That's amazing. Have you thought about also doing 3d models for the buds? I think that would be pretty cool, since you could repair everything despite apple trying their hardest to make it non-repairable :)
Amazing job! Yeah those cases are the worse, I usually heat them up until they are soft and slide out the internals but that takes me 2-3 hours so I'm loving your idea!
Kudos! Very impressive work! And what a dedication! Apple should be ashamed of how they treat their customers and leave them ashore let alone all the negative environmental aspects they create with their intentionally unrepairable devices.
It's a must that I give you credit for what you have done. In a word...AMAZING! I would have purchased new AirPods. First off I do not have the know how to do such a fix/upgrade and secondly the equipment you have to accomplish it with is another thing. I would assume you already have had the 3D printer and the rest of the tools and what not to use on this project. Good going and a very interesting video.
My first attempt at fixing my daughter phone many years ago I broke the digitizer as I don’t have a soft touch. Your video gave me some inspiration for a new hobby perhaps 😎
Hey Ken, hats off! First time watching your content & a new subscriber. Thanks to YT algorithm. Am just fascinated with your excellent work. You are really dedicated to what you do and at best know your craft very well. The amount of time put into is just incredible. Will have to share your content with a friend here in Kenya who also loves excellence.
Love how you focus on the need to make expensive tech repairable! Many youtubers would just make a cool case for the views but its a real problem that we are mining rare earth minerals to make this stuff we end up throwing in a a landfill.
This is the first video of yours I have seen, and you are awesome!! Totally subscribed and liked. Sadly and somewhat unsurprisingly, the closer you look at MOST things Apple does, the more shitty their choices truly are. People put them on such a pedestal, and then conveniently ignore the suicide nets on the buildings at apple assembly lines at Foxconn.
Love it! I appreciate the real, hard re-engineering work here, but I don't even dip a small toe into big A's ecosystem, Still there's plenty of poor, closed-areas in many manufacturer's areas. Great work!
I think they are reliable. Had non break. Yeah one because my dog bite it. But non break because of a drop or so. And they’re pretty cool because no dangling of the cables. The battery is charged pretty fast so it’s not that they’re not reliable. It’s that you’re not reliable charging them. (I mean you not personally but in general - non offensive) but I unterstand why you would buy wired ones
Thank you for sharing your innovative efforts to up cycle the Apple AirPod case. Did you cover the main PCB inside the case (as shown at 6:43 in the video) with epoxy or printer resin or was it that way originally? I assume that you might have done this to improve water resistance.
And I thought I was cool for soldering a loose wire back together in a drawing tablet. Great work tackling both the lack of right to repair AND proprietary cables.
Great work. Glad that there are intelligent people who know how to solve such problems and even improve the result. Keep it up. 👌 Edit: And making it open source makes me more happy. Sharing is caring. 👍
@@forplayplay Not true. Economics is all about value, not money. He produced a hell of a lot of value. Unfortunately our current system has conflated the two notions just like you did. This f*cked up everything (Including making unrepairable b*llsh*t products like this airpod case the standard).
@@rdoursenaud he created value in an amount of time that isn't amortized. try calculating for the dollar value of his human effort. what proportion of consumers would reparability REALLY help?
Excellent work my man! I hate when companies try their hardest to have the monopoly on their technology. Like we should be able to use the usb-c connection for all phones and small devices. Excellent job again! Keep it up man, I’m subscribing just because your paving the way to change the game and allow repair shops to work on stuff that’s designed to be monopolized!
Nope, forcing companies to homogenize all their ports is a dangerous precedent to set, and companies should have the right to make their product different
Hi, thanks for the useful video, I really like it. Is the newly printed case still unrepairable? I mean is still glued and can't be easily opened next time you want to replace the battery? I suggest printing one which can be opened using screws or something like that.
Very ambitious! And it gives a nice insight about the airpods. Well, opening the case and showing it to the public wouldn't even be allowed in Germany by patent law. But...where exactly is the environment protecting part in this process? You still throw away the broken parts, right? And the maker process is also not all clean. That's said as a maker myself. All sumed up, is Apple not doing the same recycling/upcycling as you did? But much more efficient. From old devices, they make new ones. And also improved versions. They scaled the process up. Yes, those closed devices are crazy, but wouldn't it be a more straight forward solution to not buy/consume those devices?
Ok so idk but this video has been on my front page for days now so I finally decided to give it a chance and I’m glad I did. You got yourself a new subscriber!
I would love to see you attempting to upgrade the earbuds themselves, I have tried to replace the battery’s but until now I had no luck, but I don’t want to waste them either.
This is an incredible video and what your doing is very important man!!!! Thank you for presenting this information the way you do also. There are a ton of "Iphone Repair " Kiosks where i am in California but i doubt they are doing anything CLOSE to this level of cohesive tech repair and pushing the repair space forward. Keep it up !!!!
The other day i was searching for "true wireless" earbuds and i remembered i wouldn't be able to replace the battery inside them and got IEM's instead, anyway, awesome work! Hopefully companies are forced to design products with right to repair in mind in the future
Wow! Having only just discovered you/your channel, I am beyond impressed by your skills & your creative approach to finding innovative solutions to these problems (intentionally created by "Big Tech" monopolies of course). You have most definitely earned my admiration & respect, & so of course I have now subscribed & will be sharing your channel with everyone I know. I pray you find continued success & prosperity through your endeavors, while simultaneously inspiring others (hopefully) to follow similarly creative approaches to solving these types of problems. I get a real sense of optimistic competence (sorry, can't think of better ways to phrase it atm lol) from your energy, & find it/you to be immensely encouraging & inspiring. Again, I will be doing my part to ensure that this reaches as many people as possible. Thank you so much for investing your valuable time in sharing your ideas & your talented work with all of us!
Amazing idea! It could potentially reduce tons of waste. You have shown a high level of skills designing that airpods case and also ethics sharing it OpenSource with the community for free. Thank you!
I opened mine twice without breaking them, (they are fully intact) sadly there are no replacement parts and it's all so tiny that you can't solder wires or sth. to the pcb. Ifixit has a great video about it, they used a vise to crack the glue open a bit, I just did it with my hands. Edit: I have the pros, they might be easier I think
Great vídeo. I'd LOVE if you could just embed the Airtag circuit on the case and have it be powered by the Airpods' case battery. Apple will eventually do it one day but you come from the future, you should do it first and show us the process+schematics!! 😏
Idk... there are cases out there of people using airtags to track people without their consent. That would make it much easier, you could innocently offer airpods to somebody and basically give them a tracking device
Reasons why someone should embed the Airtag chip within the Airpods case: 1 - We lose Airpods cases all the time and being able to find it would avoid thousands of daily "mini-heart attacks" on a global level. I'd say it's a global health issue! 2 - Lost Airpods cases contribute global waste problem since most people end up buying another case only to find the original one in an old backpack 2 months later 3 - The Airtag chip would be powered by the Airpods battery. Thus, there won't be a need to buy and throw away a disposable battery on an yearly basis 4 - Who in his sane mind "offers airpods to somebody"?!?! Even if a creep would do this to spy on someone, that person would be notified that an Airtag is following him and it would trigger the automatic beeping
Now this is innovation that excites, way to go! I bet if you look back on your project in a couple years you will have likely saved many consumers lots of money while also saving countless devices from becoming ewaste. Thanks for librating our AirPods from the Apple stranglehold of control!
@@dcdrinks Thats not the point, he engineered an innovative solution to a an issue numerous people are facing. Low quality parts? It’s just a replacement plastic panel for the charging case. It’s not really any higher or lower quality than the original.
@@dcdrinks So by your logic any non-Apple part is low quality? Even the same ones that apple used but are sold online from different store/website? To think that is dumb af, or just normal for apple shill.
@@ExploringTheSimulation i‘d be surprised to be the only one getting it 😉 Great job! I will think about making more references in my own work too. Thanks for the inspiration
@@ExploringTheSimulation i‘d be surprised to be the only one getting it 😉 Great job! I will think about making more references in my own work too. Thanks for the inspiration
Brilliant work you’re doing! I made a little animation a few years ago covering this crappy design - it’s called The Death of Airpods if you’re interested.
@@ExploringTheSimulation You've made my day! Thank you for watching my film and for the compliment - I'm grinning from ear to ear! ✊Viva Right to Repair!
amazing! when my airpods pro case stopped working I had to wait months on Facebook marketplace for someone who lost their airpods to sell their case. Cost me lots of time and £40, or I could have got a replacement from Apple for £80. If you could make this available for £40 or less I think there are a lot of tinker-ers that would love this as a project. Same with the airpods themselves but perhaps that's harder?
I feel like it could be done for significantly cheaper if demand would make injection molding for the case and purpose-made bracket for USB feasible. I suspect the latter could be done with significantly less amount since the process doesn't really require nuts as threading can be done in the metal piece itself which would be then spot-wielded onto a generic USB-C port. I mean I've seen that sometimes threaded holes are simply sort of punched in a way that would leave extra metal facing inwards that would be used for extra threading. Although I don't really know how much tooling would cost for a process like this
@@ExploringTheSimulation If you need some AirPods for your research let me know. I have some gen 1 which only work for about 15 minutes anymore. As a designer it really makes me sad how Apple just does not care about repairability.
If you send back the whole AirPods, because you have no parts to replace, that produce less amount of ewaste, because Apple have specific robots to disassemble the devices (it's called Daisy for iPhone), so why that is better if you throw the replaced parts to your trash can..? How exactly generate your trash can less amount of ewaste, like the properly handled process?
It'd be cool if you design replacement shell for the case in such way that it doesn't require destroying to open, so next battery replacement will be easier.
Totally! That's kind of what I was alluding to at 2:50. I just put the idea our there, now a lot of things can be done! A new version with screws would be cool. Contributions to the GitHub repo are more than welcome. On the version you see in the video, the plastic teeth have been sanded down and I don't use glue. It just has a tight fit but you can remove it if you want to replace the battery again.
Thank you for the open source. Sadly in america... One can make these for themselves, and perhaps their immediate family members. Not my words, but Apples - and also the government in america. Simply attempting to sell something that is patented is sadly enforced as a felony in america. Even if a person never actually manages to sell one (in any manner), simply trying to do so is a crime. An example, having the item text listed and/or picture listed on any site and doing so from america.
Lol what? Do you know what the first sale doctrine is? It is legal to purchase a patented item, modify it, and resell it. Infact, if I took what you said literally it would be illegal to resell anything that is patented. I want you to go on ebay right now and look for preowned iphones. Are you saying these are sold illegally?
I have a used macbook that I got to learn MacOS for my previous job, since I would be working with it. I love the screen (retina screen) but when I had to get it repaired, I went to an apple licensed repair shop. I had a bad experience there, for a "cleaning and inspection" of my coffee spill. I turned in my laptop, and got it back, not cleaned at all (sticky keys which I had to pry off carefully in order to not break them, and clean under the keys myself. The bottom of my laptop has 2 missing screws now, and I could even still see dust through the vents on the sides. More like a "open it up to tell you that you'd need to replace all the parts for more than what you bought this for"
I do have 2 of them. I had a problem in pairing up my iPhone and I even ordered another one to work. Now these days they both do work on my iPhone. I have them on different key chains one in pink and the other with pink and blue. I bought 2 covers for my key fobs one in pink and one in blue. I think it is a good way for me in the mood for grabbing one or the other in what I’m wearing. When I used one of them a little bit that I will charge them up.
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UPDATE: New video is out! I did pretty much for the same for the AirPods Pro, and you can even buy the kit!
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The issue with your "repair" and replace project.... it was now even more wasteful than buying a new AirPods case :D
Apple know at least how to produce it efficient in mass.
@@harrison00xXx Tell me, when you were inside a classroom, did you voice your opinions? Or did it just start the moment you could do it anonymously on the internet? I'm pretty sure your opinions weren't supposed to leave your headspace because they haven't matured yet. A couple of reasons why I think that:
- Mass production doesn't counter waste. Thinking it does gives out the impression you've lost your sanity.
- Shipping over/buying a new Airpods case entails: Getting the raw materials (all over the world), manufacturing it in China (slave labor + child labor), packaging it for a long bumpy ride, Sending it over by plains,trucks,boats,... (carbon footprint), ... before it ends up at your door.
- You've compared the things I've mentioned above, to creating your own case with materials you already have lying around on a machine you already own.
I hope this makes you understand how ridiculous your comment really is. If not, good luck buddy... you're going to need it :)
@@glp.1337 seems like you have a hollow, 3d printed brain?
@@harrison00xXx I am very happy YOU are saying that instead of a sane person.
Also, great job on avoiding every single argument given. Shows real character.
"We are committed to reducing waste" paraphrased from Apple when they stopped selling the phones with the charger adding more trash from packaging and while still opting for replacement rather than fixing.
you know apple recycles this things right? it makes more eco sence to recycle old device and buy new one than to order 10 parts from around the world to make frankenstein device out of your airpods that will work extra 2 months and eventually break all the same, congrats you just created more waste for not much more benefit. Also newer devices have better features etc. apple recycles this things in millions their new devices are literally made from recycled aluminium, plastic etc
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@@Mad_Catter_ iphone owner should be added to the DSM as a mental illness.
I think it should say "We are committed to producing waste"
"We are committed to reducing waste"
Paraphrased from Samsung when they also stopped including chargers into the phone boxes creating more waste
There will be critics saying: "Yeah but I don't have a 3D printer or spot welder -- and Apple is right that all this labor and these materials are more expensive than a new product"
This is NOT about forcing every consumer to spend weeks in their garage trying to fix their own broken electronics!
This is about allowing enterprising individuals to start repair shops, it's about allowing creative people to refine/automate the process even further so it becomes competitive, it's about eventually refurbishing/modding items in bulk with 3rd party kits. This effort, and fact that the schematics are open, is a giant leap forwards!
THIS 👆🏽
It’s the vision of a curious mind to create more opportunities for others potential but there’s either not enough people on the same mindset or a lot of us just have no way of connecting with that same goal in mind at the time.
A lot of people lose motivation to put this type of effort into what they do so fast I’m assuming, so what they could’ve envisioned becomes clouded. It’s sad to think but it’s all the more reason for people such as him to put out his talent and inspiration to others
If the labour and material to repair damaged air pods is too much, how fricking cheap are they to make in the first place? If it takes a repair person who gets paid $40 an hour, 1 hour to fix the airpods, and replacement parts are a few cents, and it's still cheaper to replace the product, how does Apple justify charging $300+ Canadian for airpods? I actually know the truth, marketing and suckers. Right to repair doesn't matter to Apple fanbois, they've been marketed to, and bought in hook line and sinker.
The depressing thing about this is when Apple see this they won't go hey should we consider making our devices even slightly serviceable by having replicable batteries. No they'll go how can we lock out these repaired AirPod chargers. What extra hardware and thus cost can we add to this device to make it less user friendly.
I own only 1 Apple product an 80gig Ipod Video which has Rockbox on so no iTines nonsense and I have zero interest in buying anything else due to this kind of thing. Although it's hardly like Samsung are selling easily repaired devices. I sound like Victor Meldrew.
Maybe you are better off not supporting Apple?
Just a thought....
I wish I was a teenager again. If I had seen this guy when I was 16, I would be learning everything I could from him and make a career of it. What an amazing skillset you have. Truely inspirational.
You're as young as you'll ever be...
Yeah, this is some cool shit he's doing.
@@jamesrruff Indeed I am, problem is free time. When I was a teenager, I had the time needed to learn this stuff... once you get a full-time job, kids, house, car, etc... there is always something that needs attention and leaves you with just enough time to brush your teeth and pass out at the end of the day. As you get older, every new thing you attempt means giving up something you are currently doing :(
@@CuriouslyContent how true this is. I too have a little one and never imagined the time investment would be as intense as it is.
I am 58 and upskilling. Electronics, pcb design, 3d printing, low level coding even. It's fun!
But yeah, I don't have to babysit all day. Wasn't that a woman's job? Oh yeah the enlightened young ones did away with that. Ah well, what's left is dreams of what could be.
Not only he fixed the issue considered impossible, he upgrades it. Gigachad my man.
The type c port isn't an upgrade
@@mus_xr4653 yeah2 you're right since we will not be here if you kind of people doesn't exist.
@@mus_xr4653 depand on how you look at it.
@@mus_xr4653 Type-C Port is a upgrade in any way. It's way faster than those outdated Lightning ports.
@@0x495e it's not going to charge the air pods faster and you won't need the faster transfer speed and the lightning is much more durable
it's impressive how such a tech giant is doing this and not being held accountable in any way. The process of making things reusable and not end up causing waste to pile up should start from the very source and be enforced.
Don't forget the massive dirt cheap, bordering on slave labor in China, making all this apple sht
@@CaptainRon1913 exactly
There are options... The real problem is the stupid people that like buying unreparable crap.
People are happy to get that apple symbol and don't think about how the company has always done this with all there products
Because the left, which touts to be the champion for the environment doesn't really give a shit about the environment. Majority of them are braindead zombies regurgitating what the MSM and their hero politicians are spewing at any given moment. One week it's a march for women, the next is for climate change, and the following is the women's right to healthcare. Then they all go back to their own little world and search for what other issue they want to protest about.
Amazing work brother, keep it up! Can’t wait to see what you do next!!
bro is 3d printing a girlfriend next that cant walk because else it would run away
I thought I was patient and persistent with such projects and repairs over the past fifty years . However, my hat is off to you, my friend! I have never seen such dogged determination and ultimate excellent quality results. You have inspired me to seek the next level. You may have very well “taught an old dog new tricks”! Thank you!
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Yes, he taught an old Dunn a new trick as well! Sorry, I couldn't help myself as I am an old dog myself.
@@randalcolucci6833 LOL!
If there's a will there's a way
Best comment from an old head I've ever seen!!!! In the history of all TH-cam comments!!! Finally someone in the upper age supporting someone doing good and not bad!
This is some crazy dedication and technical skill your are showing here Ken. Nice work!
If only Apple had engineers like that 🤣
@@arnandegans They do, they are just paid to intentionally design the products in a way that limits serviceability so users are required to re-purchase if anything goes wrong.
Creating an open source strategy is the best way around everyday problems.The fact it’s being done by an ambitious young guy says even more about him.If everyone practiced his ethics we wouldn’t find ourselves in so many dilemmas.Good on you!!
That's a very cool way to save these products from landfields ! I love the usb-c upgrade as well
"Designing to leave the world better than we found it."
"The fight against climate change is a fight for economic equality."
"We’re investing in some wild ideas for carbon removal."
"Good for you. Good for the planet."
"We consider our impact on people and the planet in everything we do. And we continue to ask ourselves how we can make our work an even greater force for good in the world."
"The proof is in the products."
Straight from Apple's website. - Lies!
@@PySnek Apple has always been lying and deceiving customers... Plus those airpods have GPS built it, that's next level spying
Lightning is more durable than usb c
@@rustinpeace770 Doesn't matter if it lasts less time than the battery, plus usb-c allows you to only carry one charger ! Even apple uses it on most products now
@@rustinpeace770 f apple, money hungry overrated company
Amazing work. While these are luxury items, or toys to some, it proves why we need to keep fighting to pass "Right to repair" in as many countries as possible. These are designed as disposable technology, it is wasteful and damaging, not to mention annoying. Keep up the great work.
I find it interesting how we're talking about this while Apple, along with other corporations, outsource labor to the CCP that utilizes Chinese Uhyger reeducation through labor camps (often with rape and torture) in order to strip them of their Muslim ethnic background and make them more accepting of Chinese authority. Don't get me wrong 'right to repair' is really important. But Right to... * checks notes * Human Rights is a little bit more fundamental, and I think it's insane how it isn't talked about and railed against more often.
People like you give me hope, that one day we will be able again to repair everything. We only need more open spaces with help to actually do it. When I see your workshop, there is much I don't have at home and would be great for a shared community.
Dont worry. Apple works hard to shut down those possibilities.
Apple: we will not include chargers due to ecological concerns.
Also Apple: let's put extra effort on it so it's basically needlessly disposable, lmao
they want you to keep spending money they couldn’t care less about ecology
bro? yeah it's ecological concern, when your airpods break you can take them to apple and they will recycle it for free and you can buy new ones? I don't get it where the problem is, there was no extra effort batteries just naturally die :) it is cheaper to recycle millions of airpods instead of fixing them, this guy is just making money out of no problem -by seling repair kits + making yt video, its good entertainment but I see no logic to your comment. you are wrong in every point 1) no apple doesn't care about natura they don't include chargers cus its cheaper and 2) no they don't do extra efort so its needlessly disposable it is just better to buy new ones that are better, newer,... apple makes money, you get better product and old ones get recycled instead of makign a frankenstein device that will work exstra 2 months
@@kobalov1 Wtf are you on?
@@LineOfThyThat person is probably smoking recycled apple products.
@@alexlarex7773 sweet sweet burning plastic
Kid you're brilliant! You would be an asset for any tech company. I pray you make millions and keep helping your fellow man along the way. Love that you kept it open source as 1 last FU to Apple. Your video proves that determination pays off! I wish you best of luck in the future.
Yup. 😁
And a hero comes along
well any company with the exception of apple :P
It's not open source. This is copyright infringement.
He wouldn’t be an asset, he’d be a liability for creating sustainable products rather than products that have to replaced every two years which is far more profitable and profits keeps the board and shareholders happy.
I love how to the point you are in your presentation! No time wasted.
Life is too short, last thing I want is to waste someone's time!
@@ExploringTheSimulation damn you're awesome man! 🔥
@@ExploringTheSimulation not iOS milionere mindset
You kept it amazingly brief, considering the amount of time you obviously put into the project. Very nice!
@@ExploringTheSimulation you should sell a repair kit
I'm impressed. Also happy that you made your point. They could be fixable, they are just designed to not be.
While the end result was USB-C Airpods case, the spark of innovation that came and the right to self repair is the real treasure here. Keep this up, content like this is key to showing that people can figure things out.
Amazing work. Excellent way of highlighting how companies still have a design for the dump mentality and that we must change that to be sustainable in our way of living 🙌
@@bekerashes Hey Russian propagandist, your mom doesn’t love you. Remember that.
@@bekerashes Oh yes, we can, and we do. Russia didn't went ont to conquer Ukraine, they went on to utterly destroy it from the map so as to not ever give it the possibility of getting accepted into NATO (among other things) since they were refused (duh, NATO was made to essential fight them). BTW when the Red Cross offered to take care of the bodies or Russian soldiers, Putin said no. That's how much he cares about his own people. So yeah we're going to f*** support sending weapons to Ukraine. Is it a perfect country? No, it's been in a civil war since 2014. Is the current President's son involved in corruption there? I'd say without the shadow of a doubt. And? Who are we to let them get massacred because of what essentially is the biggest diplomatic mistake of the 21th century so far? Ukraine got wrecked because we offered them a position in NATO without caring about them enough to fight for them. We f*** up and then we're going to let them die like so many other countries.
@@bekerashes how the fuck is that even remotely relevant?
@@bekerashes the fck you waffling on about? Stupid comment of the month goes to you. idiot.
Instant sub! You're an amazing problem solver, and I love that you have both the environment and the consumer in mind. Keep up your fantastic work! To open source this is the way to go, and you are very thoughtful to share the solution you must have been working on for a while.
Peace, love and looooads of respect from a Swede in Norway!
Same!
Wow, awesome! I love it that you're out there fighting "planned obsolescence." I'm constantly amazed that such an evil corporate practice has such a high level of acceptance (or tolerance). I really do want a phone (or whatever) that will last me ten years...why can't I just get that? ...subscribing.
Unless the Americans dismantle the Corporate State, the country is doomed.
There is no democracy when politicians - Presidents and Congress - are beholden to their corporate masters. These Wall Street Robber Barons spawned the corporate coup and the machinery of State Terror.
The Americans will continue to pay - yet more and more - for their complacency: for believing all they need to fix their world is the right vote. The will continue to pay for looking the other way when the government is caught decade after decade managing the international drug trade, running pedophile sex rings, for toppling democratic governments and installing criminal despots & dictators, and for operating as an international criminal cartel.
The Americans are Trapped like Rats in a Cage. Voting changes nothing when the system is nourished by corporate monopoly graft and overruled by the National Security State. [Why can’t we see the CIA JFK documents when a law was unanimously created to force their full and unobstructed release?]
There are so many corporate parasites that the host is dying fast.
In short: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Corporate bribery of politicians is legal in the USA
What else can we expect?
Every Administrations top positions are for sale: Even under Trump, the man that caused insulin pricing to go from $10 to $400 became head of Health and Human Services; the coal industry briber is now the chief of the EPA; etc
In the USA, drug pricing is a crime against humanity! For instance: generic Ibrutinib costs $86 in Australia. However, the same drug in the USA costs over $22,000 USD! Imagine the total cost to the patient requiring several rounds of Ibrutinib plus Obinutuzumab! Drug monopolies have (legally) bribed politicians [1] - And now use the powers of “life & death” to extort patients.
Former president Jimmy Carter said on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United; and later McCutchen, 569 U.S. 88, 133 S. Ct. 1537, 185 L. Ed. 2d 654, 81 U.S.L.W. 4236 (2013), which greatly expanded political bribery by corporate monopolies & billionaires. [Also Buckley v. Valeo, the landmark case involving the constitutionality of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA); and, First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978), is a U.S. constitutional law case which defined corporate bribery as a free speech right of corporations!]
Transcript:
firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/
My iPhone 6S plus is coming up to 7 years. Maybe get one of those?
@@zakil89 Lmao yea. Planned obsolesce my ass, it's just a product not designed to be replaced. 80% of people aren't going to special order a battery, then take apart it, unhook the electrical, then replace the battery, and fix it all up again, they'll just replace it.
why do you want a phone that lasts 10 years? makes no sense. its much better to just buy new better one and recycle old one. No need for the phone to be fixable. you can enjoy new product, apple makes money. if you are trying to be some sort of a "buda god mastermind ecological genius sure bro you do you, go live in a forest and be naked.
If you're in Europe, you could get a Fairphone. They're modular, so instead of buying a new one every couple years, you can just upgrade it, if you want to.
Excellent work! There is much to love about Apple, but their habit of waffling on about how environmentally friendly they are while simultaneously going out of their way to design products so they cannot be repaired or even have the batteries replaced is unacceptable. Apple has the might that other companies don't have to push the entire industry toward more environmentally responsible production. Projects like this are a great way to dismiss Apple's claims that they are doing their best.
I went into an apple store about my 12 mini because the battery is crap. Instead of a replacement under warranty they waffled on about ‘habit changes’. I honestly hate this company. I only got it cuz the small screen. Might move back to Samsung…
@@cottage_pie yea man come to Samsung gang
Apple is evil !!!
@@johnlexin7748 I love Samsung but the phones are too big. Make them release a galaxy mini and I’ll switch in a heart beat.
They're also fairly easy to hack (hunter biden, anyone?) overpriced to hell and back, and _pretend_ to have data privacy features. Air Tags, more than any other product they gouge you for, are the most antithetical to the very concept of privacy itself. They're literally "always-on" tracking devices
We have to appreciate how he gives us his hard work for free! Thank you for putting your time and effort into this!
Brilliant. I love it when people find solutions that are deemed impossible. You're a champion. Well done.👏👏👏
You’re amazing dude…! After all that hardwork, making it an open source 🙌
amazing? ;)))
I dont think he is allowed to make it closed source
@@mccvargues7792 well, he has personally designed the model and the PCB, so he has no necessity to make it open source.
@@RahulBhat007 He isn't allowed to sell his pcb or models because it infringes apple copyright
@@mccvargues7792 The case maybe. But the PCB, no way in hell. Did Apple design the PCB for the USB-C adapter? Nope they used lightning. Doesn't matter what I plug my shit into. Also open source does not protect from copyright infringement or any other legal bindings my dude.
10 million views for this vid! And I truly hope there will be a big aftermarket community for airpods and similar things. The tech inside these little things is amazing (the chips) and we are forced to throw them away for profits? Heck no.
Again I posted "Used Airpods 2G case are under $80". What ever aftermarket solution would either cost the same in material and your time or the results would be subpar at best.
10m views? Not even 1 million views
This video has < 900k views at this time. What crack are you smoking?
@@vincencohan3626
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking.
It cost next to nothing to make airpod
I’m just now seeing this video. From what you’ve shown and done for your case, and future people that need repairs, you’re bringing up this topic the in the most robust yet smart way for how much we need repairable tech. I’m glad you made you’ve made this not only a possibility, but able to hand out this help 👍👍👍
And this is why I’ve majored in Mechanical Engineering Technology. It’s videos like these that never fail to open my eyes to possibility, there are so many applications of engineering and design that it boggles me. Great stuff.
You introduced a new business opportunity to Apple for free and an inspiration goldmine to the rest of us. Resin printers usually give the better results so I prefer them versus the PLAs. I now have so many ideas since I have first gen pods and I think they will be discontinued in the next years. I like how compact (pillbox) they are next to the 2nd gen. Good vid!
The level of your ingenuity is tremendous. Next level.
This is SO SICK! What a pleasure that we are one part of it 👍👍🍻🍻
What should I fix next?!
Airpods max, naturally
Airpods battery, for sure!👍
Can you please design a solution for the Apple Pencil 1 and 2? There's no way to replace their battery without destroying their case. They're also wonderful devices, with instant response time, and it such a waste discarding them after the battery dies.
my life
This was brilliant. 👍🏻 Hack a Tesla, as your next project, with due permissions from Tesla. 😄
What real engineering should be, and looks like. Brilliant and huge respect!
Great video. Would love to see a company address this issue by maybe using replaceable batteries for the housing case if possible
I can bet you that will never happen. This also would be entirely solved if the insides of the case wouldn't be glued.
"Designing to leave the world better than we found it."
"The fight against climate change is a fight for economic equality."
"We’re investing in some wild ideas for carbon removal."
"Good for you. Good for the planet."
"We consider our impact on people and the planet in everything we do. And we continue to ask ourselves how we can make our work an even greater force for good in the world."
"The proof is in the products."
Straight from Apple's website. - Lies!
apple sends a cease and desist & poof goes the company
@@JoshMutia If said company makes airpods: yes; but if that company makes their own product apple wouldn't have any jurisdiction.
But we'll probably never see earbuds with repleacable battery, because that could only happen with a niche company that nobody cares about, meaning that the product will most likely fail (also thanks to the increased price, due to the fact that they are from a small company).
@@JoshMutia Well you can sell small Batteries for rc models that conveniently fit inside airpods and sell it that way
Bro the amount of hardwork done for this video ! Hope your channel blows up someday
IKR!? How does he not have more views?
I love everything about this. Well done. It’s not just AirPods but most wireless ear buds are designed to be ‘disposable’ once their batteries lose capacity. I haven’t found one that I’d buy yet. Will just have to keep fixing up my AirPods repeatedly. Btw What microscope is that??
"and how I'm fighting it!" you don't just talk about it, you do something about it, that is amazing #RESPECT
So cool! I'm a software engineer and I saw so many parallels from the process of solving purely coding problems to what you were doing. And then you open sourced it! Please encourage people to start businesses using this solution (and inspiring them to find more solutions now that you've shown it's possible).
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@George Jones salty
dude, you're gifted at this electronics shizzle, props to you!!!
You’re awesome for doing this. While companies like Apple make fantastic products, it makes no sense that a user can’t repair (or have someone repair) the product they paid a lot of money for. You also raised a great point about the waste. How can these companies say they’re being environmentally conscious only to force consumers of their products to have throw away ones that could’ve been repaired.
it makes perfect sense that you cant repair. it means you HAVE to buy a new one. the only reason they say that its more expensive to repair than replace is becaus they made it so intentionally. fuck apple.
Meanwhile my first gen Galaxy buds can be easily opened and repaired, Apple does everything in their power for you to not be able to repair your own devices.
Such a fantastic product!! Your own personal brain tumor grower... You're so hip!! 🙄
if their products can't be repaired, they aren't fantastic.
@@BloPsy_Actual I have a question though, are newer galaxy buds repairable or did they change them to be like the airpods, kind of like how Samsung phones became unrepairable just like apple phones
That's amazing.
Have you thought about also doing 3d models for the buds?
I think that would be pretty cool, since you could repair everything despite apple trying their hardest to make it non-repairable :)
We need more people with environmental awareness like that. Well done mate. 👍🏽
Amazing job! Yeah those cases are the worse, I usually heat them up until they are soft and slide out the internals but that takes me 2-3 hours so I'm loving your idea!
Very high quality project and video as always 👏
Can't agree more ✌
Bro imma need like your whole music playlist, the stuff you play is fire
Kudos! Very impressive work! And what a dedication! Apple should be ashamed of how they treat their customers and leave them ashore let alone all the negative environmental aspects they create with their intentionally unrepairable devices.
It's a must that I give you credit for what you have done. In a word...AMAZING! I would have purchased new AirPods. First off I do not have the know how to do such a fix/upgrade and secondly the equipment you have to accomplish it with is another thing. I would assume you already have had the 3D printer and the rest of the tools and what not to use on this project. Good going and a very interesting video.
My first attempt at fixing my daughter phone many years ago I broke the digitizer as I don’t have a soft touch. Your video gave me some inspiration for a new hobby perhaps 😎
"You Wouldn't Download An AirPods Case!" 😂
Great work! I am really considering a case design for the pro version. That would be a great natural follow on to the standard air pod dirty secret.
you're a good. I just got new airpods pro a couple of months ago, but will definitely be looking forward to your solutions in the future!
Hey Ken, hats off!
First time watching your content & a new subscriber. Thanks to YT algorithm.
Am just fascinated with your excellent work. You are really dedicated to what you do and at best know your craft very well. The amount of time put into is just incredible.
Will have to share your content with a friend here in Kenya who also loves excellence.
Love how you focus on the need to make expensive tech repairable! Many youtubers would just make a cool case for the views but its a real problem that we are mining rare earth minerals to make this stuff we end up throwing in a a landfill.
Amazing the amount of work you put into this!
This is the first video of yours I have seen, and you are awesome!! Totally subscribed and liked.
Sadly and somewhat unsurprisingly, the closer you look at MOST things Apple does, the more shitty their choices truly are. People put them on such a pedestal, and then conveniently ignore the suicide nets on the buildings at apple assembly lines at Foxconn.
Love it! I appreciate the real, hard re-engineering work here, but I don't even dip a small toe into big A's ecosystem, Still there's plenty of poor, closed-areas in many manufacturer's areas. Great work!
You are literally making a large difference with these videos and projects
Hell yeah! i dont use air pods since i like the quality and reliability of wired buds, but I 100% support your mission!
I think they are reliable. Had non break. Yeah one because my dog bite it. But non break because of a drop or so. And they’re pretty cool because no dangling of the cables. The battery is charged pretty fast so it’s not that they’re not reliable. It’s that you’re not reliable charging them. (I mean you not personally but in general - non offensive) but I unterstand why you would buy wired ones
@@gregorboxer2463 My personal reason is because wired generally have better sound quality for a much cheaper price.
Thank you for sharing your innovative efforts to up cycle the Apple AirPod case.
Did you cover the main PCB inside the case (as shown at 6:43 in the video) with epoxy or printer resin or was it that way originally? I assume that you might have done this to improve water resistance.
It was like this originally, although out of the 3 cases I've cracked open, 1 didn't have it
@@ExploringTheSimulation thank you for sharing your experiences.
People like him give a person hope. Great work. Thank you.
And I thought I was cool for soldering a loose wire back together in a drawing tablet. Great work tackling both the lack of right to repair AND proprietary cables.
Great work. Glad that there are intelligent people who know how to solve such problems and even improve the result. Keep it up. 👌
Edit: And making it open source makes me more happy. Sharing is caring. 👍
good at engineering, but an F in economics
@@forplayplay Not true. Economics is all about value, not money. He produced a hell of a lot of value. Unfortunately our current system has conflated the two notions just like you did. This f*cked up everything (Including making unrepairable b*llsh*t products like this airpod case the standard).
@@rdoursenaud he created value in an amount of time that isn't amortized. try calculating for the dollar value of his human effort. what proportion of consumers would reparability REALLY help?
I'm smart enough to not contribute to a company that treats their customers like toddlers. But you're fully supported by me. Well done dude.
Excellent work my man! I hate when companies try their hardest to have the monopoly on their technology. Like we should be able to use the usb-c connection for all phones and small devices. Excellent job again! Keep it up man, I’m subscribing just because your paving the way to change the game and allow repair shops to work on stuff that’s designed to be monopolized!
Nope, forcing companies to homogenize all their ports is a dangerous precedent to set, and companies should have the right to make their product different
Hi, thanks for the useful video, I really like it. Is the newly printed case still unrepairable? I mean is still glued and can't be easily opened next time you want to replace the battery?
I suggest printing one which can be opened using screws or something like that.
Great idea!
Dude your awesome. Props for the iPhone you made with the type c! Really your an inspiration bro
Very ambitious! And it gives a nice insight about the airpods. Well, opening the case and showing it to the public wouldn't even be allowed in Germany by patent law.
But...where exactly is the environment protecting part in this process? You still throw away the broken parts, right? And the maker process is also not all clean. That's said as a maker myself.
All sumed up, is Apple not doing the same recycling/upcycling as you did? But much more efficient. From old devices, they make new ones. And also improved versions. They scaled the process up.
Yes, those closed devices are crazy, but wouldn't it be a more straight forward solution to not buy/consume those devices?
I enjoyed the hell out of this and was fascinated watching you work through these hardware issues
Ok so idk but this video has been on my front page for days now so I finally decided to give it a chance and I’m glad I did. You got yourself a new subscriber!
I would love to see you attempting to upgrade the earbuds themselves, I have tried to replace the battery’s but until now I had no luck, but I don’t want to waste them either.
I think in a year a 2 , Apple will "invent" thier own case with Usb-c , using your design, but all glued together and sterilized.
Using his design? ... You mean Apple's own design?
Wdym using his design😭🤣🤣
I think the new pros will be usb-c already
You are a genius of genius. Hatsoff to your work. You are the master. Haven't seen this type of complicated work before.
This is incredible! You're doing us all a service by reducing ewaste and showing others how it's done!!
I would 100% download an AirPods case. Awesome work 👏
This is an incredible video and what your doing is very important man!!!! Thank you for presenting this information the way you do also. There are a ton of "Iphone Repair " Kiosks where i am in California but i doubt they are doing anything CLOSE to this level of cohesive tech repair and pushing the repair space forward. Keep it up !!!!
The other day i was searching for "true wireless" earbuds and i remembered i wouldn't be able to replace the battery inside them and got IEM's instead, anyway, awesome work! Hopefully companies are forced to design products with right to repair in mind in the future
Wow! Having only just discovered you/your channel, I am beyond impressed by your skills & your creative approach to finding innovative solutions to these problems (intentionally created by "Big Tech" monopolies of course).
You have most definitely earned my admiration & respect, & so of course I have now subscribed & will be sharing your channel with everyone I know.
I pray you find continued success & prosperity through your endeavors, while simultaneously inspiring others (hopefully) to follow similarly creative approaches to solving these types of problems.
I get a real sense of optimistic competence (sorry, can't think of better ways to phrase it atm lol) from your energy, & find it/you to be immensely encouraging & inspiring.
Again, I will be doing my part to ensure that this reaches as many people as possible.
Thank you so much for investing your valuable time in sharing your ideas & your talented work with all of us!
Ich wollte nur sagen: Du bist ein (im positiven Sinne) echter Freak! Einfach großartig recherchiert und perfekt umgesetzt!
danke vielmal !
Amazing idea! It could potentially reduce tons of waste. You have shown a high level of skills designing that airpods case and also ethics sharing it OpenSource with the community for free. Thank you!
Luckily I have the exact same equipment in my garage! Seriously, this was very interesting and impressive.
@Exploring the Simulation
Well Done Mate !!!
You are doing Great Job.
Keep on the Good Job.
We Thank You !!!
Insane! Can you maybe look into a airpods Pro compatibility? :D
sure ;)
I opened mine twice without breaking them, (they are fully intact) sadly there are no replacement parts and it's all so tiny that you can't solder wires or sth. to the pcb. Ifixit has a great video about it, they used a vise to crack the glue open a bit, I just did it with my hands.
Edit: I have the pros, they might be easier I think
Yup slightly easier on gen 2 and way easier on the pros. Gen 1 is a nightmare.
Maybe heating the case too while working it would release easier too?
You’re doing great work. They’re so expensive and so unrepairable. It’s a disgrace. This is awesome stuff. Thank you
Great vídeo. I'd LOVE if you could just embed the Airtag circuit on the case and have it be powered by the Airpods' case battery.
Apple will eventually do it one day but you come from the future, you should do it first and show us the process+schematics!! 😏
Idk... there are cases out there of people using airtags to track people without their consent. That would make it much easier, you could innocently offer airpods to somebody and basically give them a tracking device
I love this idea, same for apple watch remote :D
Reasons why someone should embed the Airtag chip within the Airpods case:
1 - We lose Airpods cases all the time and being able to find it would avoid thousands of daily "mini-heart attacks" on a global level. I'd say it's a global health issue!
2 - Lost Airpods cases contribute global waste problem since most people end up buying another case only to find the original one in an old backpack 2 months later
3 - The Airtag chip would be powered by the Airpods battery. Thus, there won't be a need to buy and throw away a disposable battery on an yearly basis
4 - Who in his sane mind "offers airpods to somebody"?!?! Even if a creep would do this to spy on someone, that person would be notified that an Airtag is following him and it would trigger the automatic beeping
Now this is innovation that excites, way to go! I bet if you look back on your project in a couple years you will have likely saved many consumers lots of money while also saving countless devices from becoming ewaste. Thanks for librating our AirPods from the Apple stranglehold of control!
How is this an innovation? He took an Apple Airpods and then break it and swap with low-quality parts.
@@dcdrinks Thats not the point, he engineered an innovative solution to a an issue numerous people are facing. Low quality parts? It’s just a replacement plastic panel for the charging case. It’s not really any higher or lower quality than the original.
@@dcdrinks So by your logic any non-Apple part is low quality? Even the same ones that apple used but are sold online from different store/website?
To think that is dumb af, or just normal for apple shill.
I love the way u share ur projects without patents
Love the Casey Neistat reference 🙌
Great stuff you are doing there!!
I enjoy your projects
Thank you
I was wondering if someone would get the reference :) Nice!
@@ExploringTheSimulation i‘d be surprised to be the only one getting it 😉
Great job!
I will think about making more references in my own work too. Thanks for the inspiration
@@ExploringTheSimulation i‘d be surprised to be the only one getting it 😉
Great job!
I will think about making more references in my own work too. Thanks for the inspiration
Brilliant work you’re doing! I made a little animation a few years ago covering this crappy design - it’s called The Death of Airpods if you’re interested.
Hi John, I've watched your video a few months ago. You're the one who's doing brilliant work!
@@ExploringTheSimulation You've made my day! Thank you for watching my film and for the compliment - I'm grinning from ear to ear! ✊Viva Right to Repair!
i am not sure which is more impressive, your knowledge or your skill, very interesting - Thank you
amazing! when my airpods pro case stopped working I had to wait months on Facebook marketplace for someone who lost their airpods to sell their case.
Cost me lots of time and £40, or I could have got a replacement from Apple for £80.
If you could make this available for £40 or less I think there are a lot of tinker-ers that would love this as a project.
Same with the airpods themselves but perhaps that's harder?
Thanks for sharing your story. I will also look into doing something for the AirPods themselves! Hopefully I come up with something simple.
I feel like it could be done for significantly cheaper if demand would make injection molding for the case and purpose-made bracket for USB feasible. I suspect the latter could be done with significantly less amount since the process doesn't really require nuts as threading can be done in the metal piece itself which would be then spot-wielded onto a generic USB-C port. I mean I've seen that sometimes threaded holes are simply sort of punched in a way that would leave extra metal facing inwards that would be used for extra threading. Although I don't really know how much tooling would cost for a process like this
@@ExploringTheSimulation If you can do the same process with a airpods pro case i’ll happily be willing to do this
@@ExploringTheSimulation If you need some AirPods for your research let me know. I have some gen 1 which only work for about 15 minutes anymore. As a designer it really makes me sad how Apple just does not care about repairability.
Crazy to think about the sheer amount of ewaste the AirPods have caused.
If you send back the whole AirPods, because you have no parts to replace, that produce less amount of ewaste, because Apple have specific robots to disassemble the devices (it's called Daisy for iPhone), so why that is better if you throw the replaced parts to your trash can..? How exactly generate your trash can less amount of ewaste, like the properly handled process?
Shocking amount of waste……well done sir …if nothing else you have proved that one man can make a difference
It'd be cool if you design replacement shell for the case in such way that it doesn't require destroying to open, so next battery replacement will be easier.
Anyway, thank you for the great job! Somebody should fight dirty capitalists!
Totally! That's kind of what I was alluding to at 2:50. I just put the idea our there, now a lot of things can be done! A new version with screws would be cool. Contributions to the GitHub repo are more than welcome.
On the version you see in the video, the plastic teeth have been sanded down and I don't use glue. It just has a tight fit but you can remove it if you want to replace the battery again.
Thank you for the open source.
Sadly in america... One can make these for themselves, and perhaps their immediate family members. Not my words, but Apples - and also the government in america. Simply attempting to sell something that is patented is sadly enforced as a felony in america.
Even if a person never actually manages to sell one (in any manner), simply trying to do so is a crime. An example, having the item text listed and/or picture listed on any site and doing so from america.
Lol what? Do you know what the first sale doctrine is? It is legal to purchase a patented item, modify it, and resell it.
Infact, if I took what you said literally it would be illegal to resell anything that is patented. I want you to go on ebay right now and look for preowned iphones. Are you saying these are sold illegally?
I have a used macbook that I got to learn MacOS for my previous job, since I would be working with it. I love the screen (retina screen) but when I had to get it repaired, I went to an apple licensed repair shop. I had a bad experience there, for a "cleaning and inspection" of my coffee spill. I turned in my laptop, and got it back, not cleaned at all (sticky keys which I had to pry off carefully in order to not break them, and clean under the keys myself. The bottom of my laptop has 2 missing screws now, and I could even still see dust through the vents on the sides. More like a "open it up to tell you that you'd need to replace all the parts for more than what you bought this for"
it is definitely more economical for the vast majority of consumers to replace than to go through the process you did 😂
but it would be more economical to replace the about $20 battery if it was designed that way but it's purposefully not
He probably has $10,000 in equipment
Great job.... curious how much does all the equipment used cost?
What an amazing work you did with precision. Well done bro. 👏👏
I do have 2 of them. I had a problem in pairing up my iPhone and I even ordered another one to work. Now these days they both do work on my iPhone. I have them on different key chains one in pink and the other with pink and blue. I bought 2 covers for my key fobs one in pink and one in blue. I think it is a good way for me in the mood for grabbing one or the other in what I’m wearing. When I used one of them a little bit that I will charge them up.