Saturday, February 28, 2009

Ipod touch, iphone, external battery charger, DONE!

Here is a video on how to make an external battery charger for the ipod touch and iphone. There really aren't to many of these around because the ipod touch is a bitch to make a charging cable for because it needs multiple resistors as well, to tell the itouch it can draw power. But I found a ipod connector which had those reistors all prepared for me so I just hacked it up for my purposes!

Parts List:
1. Ipod emergency charger link
(note: the one I used cost 5 bucks at a store called "5 and below", if we could just find somewhere to get the tip, because that is all we need, for a buck then that would be ideal.)
-Dealextreme.com has this one which I think would work as well. Under 5 bucks and FREE SHIPPING!

2. Radio Shack "AAA" battery holder link

3. Soldering Iron
(note: not requires you could just twist the wires together and tape it over)

4. 4 AAA rechargeable batteries
(note: can be had at the bankrupt circuit city for 4 bucks!)

5. A suction cup
(note: picked mine up at the grocery store)

Pics below:



3 comments:

  1. will this work with the ipod touch 2g?

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  2. Hi, I tried to do an ipod charger with an old cellphone 5V charger, linking the + and - to + and - pins of the usb cord, and of course noticed it didn't work. I am guessing the circuit embedded in the plug simulates a connection to a computer by powering the D+ and D- pins.
    Could you please provide a diagram of the circuit ? you should be able to measure the resistors with any multimeter.
    Thanks

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  3. hey, never mind, I found it here :
    h*tp://tzywen.com/modules.php?file=article&name=News&sid=683

    And explanation here :
    h*tp://tzywen.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=696

    So now you don't even need the emergency charger.

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