Make your own Micro USB Charger for your gadgets

I decide to make an emergency charger for my phone and win a bet at the same time. You see, I had this weird battery that didn't fit anything, and I was told by a family member to just toss it; I said "no, I can still use it", but they just laughed and said "surrrrre you can ;-\ ", so I got plugging away on this project.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Emergency
• Micro
• USB
• Phone
• Charger
• CP1
• Battery

[4dy4dy]

fake... why your mp3 player saying "updating" ? i have tried too upgrade my mp3 player (unsuccsesful because i used a softarefrom another version of mp3 player, my bad) and makes same thing like yours , ( with no cable connected and sayes, charging :P sorry for my bad english

[HalfBreedMix]

@4dy4dy The MP3 player works fine, and the charger I made works as well. As for the "Updating" message that was displayed, who knows, maybe I needed to up the voltage (different battery); this video was more to show how to make the "adapter" cord than it was to push for the use of that certain battery I used. BTW, your English is pretty good, assuming that it's not your first language.

[churixus1]

id rather pay 15 dollars

[HalfBreedMix]

@churixus1 Ahhhhhhh, come on,,,it's fun ;-)

[L0ver80y]

Also while you may be saving time burning the tips of your wires your also diminishing the tensile strength of the wires themselves making them more fragile and susceptible to breakage.

[HalfBreedMix]

That's some good info there, thanx LOver80y.

[frankyvee1]

Good info, just one note: More solder is not always better. What is more important is that the surface is free of any oxides and you get the surface hot enough to get a good bond. For example I would just dab some flux on the connecter and heat it to clean the surface. Then you want to tin the connector and your wires. What this does is it gets a bond of solder on both pieces. Now you just hook your wire onto the connector and apply heat and a bit of solder if necessary to complete the bond.

[Datacotom]

thanks man this video helped a lot, do u think i could just attach both of the alligator clips directly to a solar panel and after a while the gadget would be supplied with energy?

[koopa315]

@churixus1 lazy bum

[koopa315]

@churixus1 lazy ass

[jack1233147]

Me too!!!!

[tymahtron]

the "braid" and "tin" you talk about it shielding to help against emi