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One amazing thing about USB-C is its high-speed capabilities. The pinout gives you four high-speed differential pairs and a few more lower-speed pairs, which let you pump giant amounts of …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: High-Speed Interfaces
USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, bullying companies …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Power Delivery
If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Resistors And Emarkers
In USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard, the PPS (Programmable Power Supply) mode is an optional mode that lets you request a non-standard voltage from a charger, with the ability to …read more Continue reading Use USB-C Chargers To Top Up Li-Ion Packs With This Hack
We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion …read more Continue reading USB-C: Introduction For Hackers
Once upon a time, USB was still hip, cool, and easy to understand. You could get up to 500 mA out of a port, which wasn’t much, but some companies …read more Continue reading Throwback: USB Hotplate Used 30 Whole Ports
Once upon a time, building yourself a power supply required sourcing all manner of components, from transformers to transistors, knobs, and indicators. These days, everything’s a bit more integrated which …read more Continue reading It’s Super Easy To Build Yourself a USB-C Variable Power Supply These Days
[Mansour Behabadi] wanted to harness the high power capability of USB-C using as simple a hardware design as possible. After some research and experimental prototyping, he designed the fpx — an easy …read more Continue reading Easy USB‑C Power For All Your Devices