📅 Published on: October 20, 2025
Type-C charging port swap for some random 3.5 audio jack to bluetooth converter
Had a friend ask me if I can do some soldering as his BT receiver’s charging port broke. This small box he uses to connect through bluetooth to a living room sound system that only has jack input.
Now I kinda had a bad feeling seeing the pictures of the crooked micro usb charging port that the traces were broken, and indeed they were. Luckily I had some type c breakout boards at hand, and after a bit of soldering and waiting for epoxy to dry we had a quite promising result!
Now, from that angle it looks fine, but I sure need more dremmel training haha.
All in all it worked out great, and thanks to my magnificent dremmeling skills, we also have a status light!!
The only caveat is since its a simple breakout board, the 2 resistors you need to detect the host for pd are missing which means you can only use Type-A to Type-C cables, but for such a simple device its more than enough.