Comment on Soldering/De-soldering USB flash-drive Plugs
dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
there’s dosdude1 soldering away on NAND chips; this should be a walk in the park even for a hobbyist.
as to macgyvering, the S in USB is for “serial” and such a connection needs very few wires, three if I’m not mistaken. so an absent USB connector could be fixed temporarily with clips and wires and such.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Assuming it’s USB 2, It’s 4 wires, the serial is differential, and balanced. The faster the lime, the more tricky it is to rig it, because your lengths want to be matched on D+ and D-. (You might be able to get away with a 1mm difference with USB 2)
USB 3 and USB c are a different beast entirely.