THANKS Alexander! I needed a USB - A -> USB - A cable to connect an Apple Tv 4 with USB - C port and USB - A converter, I had only USB Male - Female cables but I got one USB - A -> USB - A from those following you guide! Still THANKS!
Hey, next time use a lighter or a candle to heat up the plastic isolation on the coloured wires you need , and then just pull it off with your fingers when it becomes soft enough. Much easier process, but watch out not to burn your fingers because of the high temperature of the isolation and wire.
THANKS FOR THE DIY VIDEO. I HAVE A COOLING FAN THAT HAS GOOD MOTORS AND A BASE. THE PLUG IS BAD. I THINK I CAN FIX IT NOW. I HATED TO THROW IT AWAY. IT IS HEAVY GUAGE ALUMINUM AND CAN STILL WORK IF I CAN GET POWER TO THE FANS.
Safer way 2 strip ur wires without slicing ur fingers with a razor blade is 2 burn the wire with a lighter about 1/4 of an inch back from the end,then pull off outer coating between thumb n forefinger using thumb nail 2 drag outer coating off and...fast,simple,less blood loss!
hi hey is it posible to make a cable for the dvd player.i have a dvd that reads only cd and dvd cd but does not have a usb port,in the back of dvd it has cable for video and for speakers the cables are red and white for the video it has orange cable.i woud like to wach movies from usb is it posibile and the dvd is -dce dvd 2500
I'm sure it's _possible_ but likely/practical? No. You certainly won't be able to just transmit audio/video data without some kind of interpretation. I suppose on the other end of that USB cable, you could build some circuitry in a breadboard that could interpret those signals. But for the time and money spent, you might as well just buy a $30, analog USB capture card from Newegg and save yourself the trouble.
I did that, red red , black black, white white, gren gren, other other... and it only connects one or the other device on the Y end. I actually had to skip through all the video because i only needed to know the wire colors. 9 minutes for wire colors. lol
And the worst part is, I edited it down! I really hate that this video has so many views. Every time TH-cam congratulates me for getting more views, I just want to disappear. It could have been "Hey, cut up some USB cables and connect them according to the following diagram". Boom.
It is a great video. I did a little modification. I join all the four wires. Of course I used it for another purpose. I connect two phone to the computer and charge them both and upload or download files to and from computer phones. It is amazing. The trick doesn't work with my ipad or my samsung but the other phones are ok. Thanks man. It was of great help. Keep the good job.
While I can't test this, I can say that in principle it should work that way. Be careful, though. There's no regulator in this "circuit". It's possible you could destroy your USB drive. Or worse, the whole thing could be one giant voltage feedback device, thus damaging both your USB drive and the HP Stream. Proceed at your own risk. And if you choose to embark down that path, please let us know what happened!
It really depends on what the device is. If it's something complex like a keyboard or a mouse, I don't think there's much you can do. If it's more simple like a flash drive, I'd say try swapping the two things you have plugged in. But in the end, this cable isn't supposed to act like a USB hub. So be ready for a lot of unexpected behavior.
if this is staying at home most of the time, why not just stop at radio shack and grab the smallest and closest to a terminal strip with 4 contacts. the European style works good since it isolates every "conductive hazard" (the terminals, screws and anything metal) involed in hacking electronic "sh*t". might as well grab one with 8 contacts so you can make two separate custom rigs for transferring data.
I'd like to suggest a possible improvement to your design: If you add a 100K resistor to the minus wire (black cable) and add a bypass wire to the shielding (ground cable) before the resistor than any excess current will be diverted to the ground and prevent overloading your circuit. An illustration of this design can be found here: www.pinout.net/connectors/Y_OTG_CABLE.png
Hi mate. Thanks for sugestion. Now I know what 100k for. I have a question. I found another schematic here android.stackexchange.com/questions/29168/can-sony-xperia-ust25i-s-otg-be-connected-to-external-power As you can see 100k has a switch. What for? Also I can see 220k resistor and diode between GROUND and Vcc+5V Do you know what for?
Alex Mag Hello Alex, I am not an expert but I'd say that the 100k is to change the frequency of the channel which acts as a digital button (Likely for dock power on/off. So the phone will charge even if the dock is off) www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/mar97/basics.html
Alex Mag A "200k" resistor with a diode in series acts as a voltage doper which lowers the voltage (from 5v to 3.3v in your case, I think): electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/72709/basic-question-about-diode-voltage-drop-and-resistor-position
Shawn E As long as you're getting power into the system, then all ends of the cable will have access to the data. Be careful, though. If you're trying to write to a device through multiple channels, you're likely to corrupt that device. With solid-state devices (like flash drives), there's even a chance that multiple, simultaneous reads could cause problems.
Thanks...it worked but with issues like you said. It didn't even matter that one device was not powered at the time. It actually some how turned the other device on lol. Oh well.
So is this a usb splitter or what? Like, could I plug two flash drives into the ends and hook it up to my computer, or use it to plug in a mouse and keyboard at the same time?
Indeed. I did get some unexpected behavior, though. I tried it twice. Both flash drives lit up for about a second each, then turned off. One time, my computer made the "device connected" sound. The other time, it did nothing.
Haha, oh man. Yeah. I went to a lot of trouble to make sure that you couldn't tell I was using my teeth for some of the wire stripping. I have since gotten a few *actual* wire strippers.
How not to struggle with scissors when stripping wire when you have no wire strippers: Use a lighter to slightly melt the sheathing on each wire at the point you want to remove it. It should take just a second or two. As soon as you take the flame away, grab the tip of the sheathing you want to remove and pull it off. If it doesn't come off easily, heat it again and try again. Don't burn the wire or light the sheathing on fire....just melt it.
I suppose it depends on how you plan to use that cable. There are three wires in the USB cable and three "wires" in the 3.5mm cable - cdn4.explainthatstuff.com/earbud-stereo-jack-plug-wiring.jpg. Fortunately, that means there are only 20 combinations. As long as you don't solder each combination, you should be able to experiment with connection schemes pretty easily. Curiously, for what do you plan to use that cable?
@@GameDr04 hi, I would like to ask if is it possible to use mini usb for male then female micro usb and female 3.5mm jack? I want to use it for action cameras so I can use external microphone while charging it in a powerbank without using battery
I have absolutely no idea. I've had that track on my computer for the better part of a decade. However, I can provide you with a link to it: theznet.org/people/public/files/k_Loop_01.wav
bro can you make tutorial about making mod DIY : 2 male usb to 1 female usb , to get much faster charge battery for smart phones so you can get more power ( mA ) from 2 USB port from mother board or usb charger . please guys thumps up my comment , so he can see it
OMG!!! This is not good. That for it is good, buy solder connector, and solder the two of them UTP cable! With sort lines, because it's spoil the speed, or make unusable.
i am looking for a cable that i can connect my phone to both android auto in the car, as well as an external thumb drive that the phone can access while connected to android auto. will a y cable like this work for me?
THANKS Alexander! I needed a USB - A -> USB - A cable to connect an Apple Tv 4 with USB - C port and USB - A converter, I had only USB Male - Female cables but I got one USB - A -> USB - A from those following you guide! Still THANKS!
SImple video and for sure a very good advice! THX Dude!
hey alex! it is damn good and working absolutely good
Thanks for the explination man :)
I'd love to know if this did work for the wiiU. I want to do two males w one micro.
im surprised that the male end female end designation hasnt been target by feminists yet
did you just assume the usb ends sex?
NoVaKane the one who created them said they were male and female, so we assume nothing. 🤔
the person who made it and then called it that was probably a pervert
@@j5892000 no the side that plugs into the port is mal and the port side that the male side goes into is female. makes sense doesn't it ? ;)
Thanks. I need to make a 2-male-1-female cable. will be getting to work NOW.
Worked! Thanks Again!!
Curious if the one you made would be able to add additional power for a HDD on Wii U?
Bradley Smiley that's exactly why I made it! And yes it does work! :)
Bradley Smiley just be sure to only use the data wires from one source and power from both.
laserbeak43 Thanks so much!
Hey, next time use a lighter or a candle to heat up the plastic isolation on the coloured wires you need , and then just pull it off with your fingers when it becomes soft enough. Much easier process, but watch out not to burn your fingers because of the high temperature of the isolation and wire.
I owe you my life
I cant understand why you still have to cut the green and white cable then connect it again in the end. Please answer me. Thank you.
thank you
Nice posters
Could you slow down the wire stripping sequence? I tried going real fast like the video. Now, I'm missing two fingers and a thumb.
I wish I could give this multiple thumbs-up. It makes me laugh every time I read it.
I gave you a thumb. I have finger also. I can give you the finger
Frank Heuvelman Not funny.
THANKS FOR THE DIY VIDEO. I HAVE A COOLING FAN THAT HAS GOOD MOTORS AND A BASE. THE PLUG IS BAD. I THINK I CAN FIX IT NOW. I HATED TO THROW IT AWAY. IT IS HEAVY GUAGE ALUMINUM AND CAN STILL WORK IF I CAN GET POWER TO THE FANS.
hey i just want to know guys.. can i leave the other usb connector having only two wires. the red and white? the usb for power?
I LIKE THIS...
Safer way 2 strip ur wires without slicing ur fingers with a razor blade is 2 burn the wire with a lighter about 1/4 of an inch back from the end,then pull off outer coating between thumb n forefinger using thumb nail 2 drag outer coating off and...fast,simple,less blood loss!
So this cable will work for both power and data?
So can this be used to connect and mouse and keyboard to an OTG cable for my nexus 7?
lighter is better to burn down the cable.
Then you can pull off a little melted cable (do not burn just melt )
whats the music played on the rewind?
Hi, I'll be grateful for you if you say the way you could unlock your HTC HD7s
Can I use this on a external HDD for extra power?
So you get power from the USB-male, and the two females comunicate between each other and have power ? Is this like a hub ?
Hey! Can you make a usb female to female coupler with OTG cables?? Do we have to just join all the same colored wires to the ssame colored wires??
Yes and yes.
But...why?
is that a gigatron computer? (on background)
hi hey is it posible to make a cable for the dvd player.i have a dvd that
reads only cd and dvd cd but does not have a usb port,in the back of dvd
it has cable for video and for speakers the cables are red and white for the
video it has orange cable.i woud like to wach movies from usb is it posibile and the
dvd is -dce dvd 2500
I'm sure it's _possible_ but likely/practical? No.
You certainly won't be able to just transmit audio/video data without some kind of interpretation. I suppose on the other end of that USB cable, you could build some circuitry in a breadboard that could interpret those signals. But for the time and money spent, you might as well just buy a $30, analog USB capture card from Newegg and save yourself the trouble.
I did that, red red , black black, white white, gren gren, other other... and it only connects one or the other device on the Y end. I actually had to skip through all the video because i only needed to know the wire colors. 9 minutes for wire colors. lol
And the worst part is, I edited it down!
I really hate that this video has so many views. Every time TH-cam congratulates me for getting more views, I just want to disappear.
It could have been "Hey, cut up some USB cables and connect them according to the following diagram". Boom.
I do not know the name, but i have it from a patch crack program of Sony Vegas 9, if you want the song let me know.
It is a great video. I did a little modification. I join all the four wires. Of course I used it for another purpose. I connect two phone to the computer and charge them both and upload or download files to and from computer phones. It is amazing. The trick doesn't work with my ipad or my samsung but the other phones are ok. Thanks man. It was of great help. Keep the good job.
will this work on hp stream 7 that uses USB charging so that i can plug USB devices while charging???
While I can't test this, I can say that in principle it should work that way.
Be careful, though. There's no regulator in this "circuit". It's possible you could destroy your USB drive. Or worse, the whole thing could be one giant voltage feedback device, thus damaging both your USB drive and the HP Stream.
Proceed at your own risk. And if you choose to embark down that path, please let us know what happened!
What if you get USB Device not recognized on the secondary female USB port that you add to the cable how can you fix that?
It really depends on what the device is. If it's something complex like a keyboard or a mouse, I don't think there's much you can do. If it's more simple like a flash drive, I'd say try swapping the two things you have plugged in.
But in the end, this cable isn't supposed to act like a USB hub. So be ready for a lot of unexpected behavior.
if this is staying at home most of the time, why not just stop at radio shack and grab the smallest and closest to a terminal strip with 4 contacts. the European style works good since it isolates every "conductive hazard" (the terminals, screws and anything metal) involed in hacking electronic "sh*t". might as well grab one with 8 contacts so you can make two separate custom rigs for transferring data.
I'd like to suggest a possible improvement to your design: If you add a 100K resistor to the minus wire (black cable) and add a bypass wire to the shielding (ground cable) before the resistor than any excess current will be diverted to the ground and prevent overloading your circuit. An illustration of this design can be found here: www.pinout.net/connectors/Y_OTG_CABLE.png
Hi mate. Thanks for sugestion. Now I know what 100k for.
I have a question. I found another schematic here android.stackexchange.com/questions/29168/can-sony-xperia-ust25i-s-otg-be-connected-to-external-power
As you can see 100k has a switch. What for?
Also I can see 220k resistor and diode between GROUND and Vcc+5V
Do you know what for?
Alex Mag Hello Alex,
I am not an expert but I'd say that the 100k is to change the frequency of the channel which acts as a digital button (Likely for dock power on/off. So the phone will charge even if the dock is off) www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/mar97/basics.html
Alex Mag A "200k" resistor with a diode in series acts as a voltage doper which lowers the voltage (from 5v to 3.3v in your case, I think): electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/72709/basic-question-about-diode-voltage-drop-and-resistor-position
Might you happen to know if you can make a y cable that has data running through both?
Shawn E As long as you're getting power into the system, then all ends of the cable will have access to the data.
Be careful, though. If you're trying to write to a device through multiple channels, you're likely to corrupt that device.
With solid-state devices (like flash drives), there's even a chance that multiple, simultaneous reads could cause problems.
Thanks...it worked but with issues like you said. It didn't even matter that one device was not powered at the time. It actually some how turned the other device on lol. Oh well.
so if you can, could you throw a song or crack myself, thank you @Josias Baez
So is this a usb splitter or what? Like, could I plug two flash drives into the ends and hook it up to my computer, or use it to plug in a mouse and keyboard at the same time?
I admit, I didn't know the answer to this and I was very curious. So I tested it.
It turns out: no. It doesn't work that way.
ahh, damn.
but now we know :P
Indeed.
I did get some unexpected behavior, though. I tried it twice.
Both flash drives lit up for about a second each, then turned off. One time, my computer made the "device connected" sound. The other time, it did nothing.
Interesting, maybe it was enough to give the flash drives power but not a good enough connection to actually connect it to the computer
good video but please get a wire stripper man its was really painful to see to got through all that trouble to strip those wires
Haha, oh man. Yeah. I went to a lot of trouble to make sure that you couldn't tell I was using my teeth for some of the wire stripping. I have since gotten a few *actual* wire strippers.
Alexander Danehy I think it’s way easier using a torch and just melting it off
i like video
okay its pretty cool...but how much kost a y cable 2 dollars ?
How not to struggle with scissors when stripping wire when you have no wire strippers: Use a lighter to slightly melt the sheathing on each wire at the point you want to remove it. It should take just a second or two. As soon as you take the flame away, grab the tip of the sheathing you want to remove and pull it off. If it doesn't come off easily, heat it again and try again. Don't burn the wire or light the sheathing on fire....just melt it.
👍☇
hi..i won to make for me from 3.5mm aux to famale usb how to connect the wires ??? please help !!!
I suppose it depends on how you plan to use that cable.
There are three wires in the USB cable and three "wires" in the 3.5mm cable - cdn4.explainthatstuff.com/earbud-stereo-jack-plug-wiring.jpg. Fortunately, that means there are only 20 combinations. As long as you don't solder each combination, you should be able to experiment with connection schemes pretty easily.
Curiously, for what do you plan to use that cable?
@@GameDr04 hi, I would like to ask if is it possible to use mini usb for male then female micro usb and female 3.5mm jack? I want to use it for action cameras so I can use external microphone while charging it in a powerbank without using battery
What is the song played such as in the 7 minute mark?
I don't know what it's called or where I got it. But here's a link to download it.
theznet.org/people/public/files/k_Loop_01.wav
+Alexander Danehy Ok thanks!
hey would this be useful for connecting the ps TV to a computer?
I don't think so. As far as I know, the USB on the PSTV is intended for reading content from USB drives.
Hmmm I see
one if my favorite trick for stripping wire is use a lighter and pull off the plastic. would make your life a lot easier.
Haha, yeah. And it'd probably be easier on my teeth, too!
Hey can u show how to make a usb otg host y cable that allow charging to phone
So, 5-pin micro USB, a female USB-A and...male USB-A?
Yes
why did you type in all caps?
All the USB cables are the same thing inside? (sorry for the stupid question.. m kinda ignorant lol)
i like ur old G15 Rev. 2 Keybord had it too but now its broken, and i wanna have it again :,(
I have a broken g15 too 😭
What was the remote for
I used it to change the zoom of the camera.
I also used it to start and stop the camera, as needed.
Name of the sound track in 3:22 please?
I have absolutely no idea. I've had that track on my computer for the better part of a decade.
However, I can provide you with a link to it: theznet.org/people/public/files/k_Loop_01.wav
many thanks :)
lol without soldering...
lol. I didn't even notice. I just saw him cut the first cable and I decided i would make my own( soldered them together of course).
I have a question but need to show u what i did? How do i do that
You can direct-message me on Twitter, if you'd like. @elCacheton064
@@GameDr04 i dont have twitter
@@GameDr04 i had did it a diffeeenet way and dont know t it's not workin
Name
Mine just starting smoking wdh
I can't get it to work
mine too
4:03 you mean 4 wires?
iphone 6
bro can you make tutorial about making mod DIY :
2 male usb to 1 female usb , to get much faster charge battery for smart phones
so you can get more power ( mA ) from 2 USB port from mother board or usb charger .
please guys thumps up my comment , so he can see it
is it the same thing if i want two male end? and not two female?
Yes.
Just make sure your device will be OK with receiving power from two concurrent USB connections.
***** its for a wii u need more power for my external hard drive
Jorge Alvarado I suppose if your device is already under-powered, then it _should_ be safe to do that.
***** Thanks
Dude, did it work?
"Everyone's favorite cable-buying website"
What site? Amazon?
:D
I was probably thinking "Monoprice" (monoprice.com/)
Windows Phone!
Heh, the first 40 seconds were like a mashup of random "Geek" words.
a great shit lol.
5volt /2 = 2,5volt
500ma/ 2 = 250ma
not good for device.
+Axel Gebauer wut? just get a 2a+ power supply man
What what what?
ku gk ngrti
Truer words, my friend.
OMG!!! This is not good. That for it is good, buy solder connector, and solder the two of them UTP cable! With sort lines, because it's spoil the speed, or make unusable.
You are correct. But the reason I made this was not for huge amounts of data transfer. I was only moving about 8MB.
Wtf
real bad for iphone users
why did you show the video before iphone was able to use it .i give you a 0thumbs down
Got a headache while watching the video.....
If you made it more than a minute in, I totally understand your headache.
dude you must be sooo bored
i am looking for a cable that i can connect my phone to both android auto in the car, as well as an external thumb drive that the phone can access while connected to android auto.
will a y cable like this work for me?
hey alex! it is damn good and working absolutely good