Let's hear some fun ideas for confusing connector sleeves!

Ha. I like the vga part but the part that makes your usb - c connector look like an old fashioned proprietary apple lightening connector is just too much!

It's not the same without two little screws jangling about

How about display port that looks like HDMI? Oh wait...

Yes officer. This post over here.

this is the most comments I've seen on lemmy. now i know the community I'm in. God help me.

A power plug, but the three-prong ones like we have in the UK. The two lower prongs would appear to be plugged into the phone, and the top prong would just hover uselessly above the phone.

Bonus points for following the shape of the plug properly and having the cable come out of the bottom of the wall wart, so the phone can never lat down flat while it's charging.

That's brilliant. Do you have .stls available for that?

An ethernet cable that's actually wired for a serial port

looks at network hardware vendors

I've seen a few renditions of this one so far:

At first I thought it was great standard connector. It turns out to be non-standard garbage.

I would want an RJ45 charger.

Side note, does anyone know some sort of cable sleeve similar to this that instead grabs onto the device and stabilizes the port?

As much as I like type-C, the ports on my laptop have worn down significantly and aren't always stable

Terrible ideas:

Garden hose
NEMA 10-50 - each "prong" could be a different connector
CCS
USB-A
Quick-connect air coupler

Make it look like an old Apple 30-pin.

That is a work of art.

A 24 pin mobo power connector just to strike ptsd into those who notice.

Print USB-A sleeves with the logo on the wrong side. People will be so surprised and confused when they can't plug the cable in on the first try!

Hey, I'd buy it. Maybe, I mean money is pretty tight.

VGA was a standard though, wasn't it?

You inspired at least one print. Thankfully, I have blue filament on hand!

V G A! V G A!

VGA master race.

I wanna see scart with a usbc

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First we has the Flesh Light. Then we broke the mold with the Vajankle. Now we have cracked the code with the VaGC!

Hozelock adapter with some authentic garden hose cable sleeving.

One of those big old audio jacks. Bonus points for use of metal and leaving a good chunk of it ‘sticking out’.

I love it!

I just cut up an old VGA cable to make some of these tonight. Surprisingly not that hard to take apart. I'll need to use my dremel to cut the screws off of their little blue thumb grips so I can glue them on.

USB-A sleeve for an aux-cable (aux would just kinda dangle in the casing)

HDMI sleeve with a hole drilled through for an Ethernet to poke out

Amphenol connector with full environmental backshell

Haha this is brilliant

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

SCSI>USB-C

This is brilliant! 👍

We need that guy from Reddit who makes useless products…

this is beautiful

V.35 or IEEE-488

If this were designed in such a way that the metal plates surrounding the connector pins went fairly deep into the plastic casing, this would make for a very durable cable.

Boof it!!!

You shouldn't use this long term.

The cable strain relief (the ribbed part on the end) is nonfunctional because it is hard 3D printed plastic without any give, it's a very easy way to wear out your cable at that spot from the concentrated cable strain.

Remember parallel connection? You know, that giant ass VGA lookalike that worked like a slower version of USB? Let's make a connector sleeve that looks like that, surely it's not a terrible idea at all even if your phone has a headphone jack (it blocks the headphone jack from being used due to its size).

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