I turned an Airtag into a card for wallets!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I wanted to put an Airtag into my wallet so that I can also track it's location but I found out that the Airtag is quite thick and it will create a bulge in my wallet. So I modified the Airtag and gave it a new body!
For those who are interested in the 3D print stl:
www.thingivers...
Came here from 9to5Mac. Hope you start getting some ad revenue. You deserve it
I think not yet, only when he hit 1000 subscribers, here you have a new one
Sadly the channel seems too new, but hopefully soon on other projects. I subscribed.
i loved the cr2032 acronym explanation
This chanel is new for me and its already on my favorites list! Great work! Can't wait to see more videos :)
Thanks for the reply!
I’m surprised nobody else thought about this idea until now - it’s brilliant! Incredible work here 👏🏻👏🏻
One person publishing a UA-cam video does not mean NO ONE else thought of something so blindingly obvious. He’s not discovered particle physics my friend. This is basic stuff.
i think this the born of new big channel
well, I am quite nervous now
puts a airtag to the worlds bulgiest wallet ever "it bulges up which is not desirable"
Instead of soldering to the board, you could make a press fit connector. I haven't done it since EE lab, but it shouldn't add much depth, and it would simplify the process.
Great idea! You made it into a really cool unique device, no one else will have one of thoes!
This is genius
Instead of using Apple Wallet, Apple Pay and get rid of wallet, he just made tracker for it, brilliant!
What the fuck - Apple made the tracker, he just dissambled it and connected the wires to a battery. Nothing revolutionary
@@toxicityuser it was sarcastic, mate. Apple is awesome and very few reasons to use such solution.
Super idea, really like this video. Good for today's version of Airtag. Next version, I hope Apple do not overglue the device that it cause damage why prying out. However, Apple MUST rethink the design to make it thinner. By the time Apple come out with "version 2", the original one will become a collector's/hacker's item.
Wow great work! I need to learn how to solder now.
Awesome work. More than I need to deal with. I just opted for a new thin wallet with a spot for the tag.
Very cool! Apple should produce this and pay you royalties!
I imagine people will sell these
Ya I bet some company is working on something like this already
Tile already have card size trackers
Manual focus next time? What is the copper ring that got left behind on the plastic case? Should have soldered red to the side of the battery to keep it thin.
Plot Twist: Apple made it so minimal so people can make protypes for other products.
*UA-cam approves this video*
You need to put back in the speaker
Nice job man keep it coming wit amazing ideas came here from a news app and also u just got a follower👍
Nice video! You could wrap it in carbon foil tape to close it without adding too much thickness.
Very cool! You’re on to something.. you could totally do an Apple Hacks channel!
Why did I think that you have MILLION plus Subscribers. :D You deserve it wow!!
Because you’re easily impressed by basic hardware mods?
@@unlokia No that's not the true.. I mean the video quality is on top level. So i thought that he has a lot of numbers on his acc so he can achieve this quality.
Cool! Subscribed keen to see future projects and more 3d printing work, what software were you using to design? need an alternative to fusion 360
The AirTag is “fine”
The NFC antenna is real easy to break. Be careful when applying heat and lifting board out. Anybody got any ideas on how to encase the board and battery side by side. I'm thinking just soak into an epoxy card
Good work!
I don't understand why anyone would put it on their bike or anything else that they don't want stolen for that matter. A thief with an iphone will be notified that they are being tracked by an airtag.
Found this on my recommendation 😃 love the video and Idea 😀🙂
Why not just fit a 2012 or 2016 battery and make a thin pressure sleeve?
Next project... thank you
Awesome idea Andrew. Exactly what I’m looking for. What’s your venmo I will buy one or two off of you. Thanks man!
Vancouver, represent! I could ID that Compass card anywhere!
YVR!!
What's the diameter of the PCB? Trying to determine if they can be modded to fit into a 1.07" bicycle seat tube.
But you broke the speaker! Isn't there a way to get around with the speaker as well?
The AirTag itself is the speaker, so we’ll have to connect one externally which will add bulk :/
@@TheiTE Apple drives the speaker with a magnet and coil. So it probably won’t drive a piezoelectric beeper. But those are super thin if you can figure out how to drive it.
@@stevefeinstein Yeah, but the body of the speaker which vibrates to produce sound is the AirTag itself.
@@TheiTE a piezoelectric beeper is a very flat self contained beeper. If you could convert the signal being sent to the voice coil instead to drive a beeper it could work. But it could be hard since the audio is not what a beeper wants to turn it on.
Something like this 10PCS 35mm Piezo Elements Buzzer Sounder Sensor Trigger Drum Disc www.amazon.com/dp/B073RK8KM3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_BZ90APTCBRB35ZM6BTKR. But again. I have no idea if it would work or how it would affect battery.
@@stevefeinstein ohk
Can you do a tutorial on wiring this to be inside of a macbook?? That would be Amazing!!!!! If you do it before apple does this would be HUGE!!!
It still baffles me how Apple doesn't just release an official credit card form-factor Airtag similar to what Tile natively offers.
Because of this form factor + the standard model having a built in loop I opted to go with Tile even if the network isn't as great. Apple is making weird design choices by only offering one form factor and not including a built-in loop, probably to sell more accessories.
So third-party custom design airtag can be made.. Different kind of shapes.... Take a note china.
impressive Cheers! from Tucson AZ
Dug you video. And that lil nugget about the battery name 👍
great job
❤️The things that interest me and make me wish I had the skill to do. Congrats. And I SUBBED! 👩🏾🦳👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You did break something, and its the speaker.
Wow you should work for Apple it’s an excellent idea to have the AirTag in a car that fits in your wallet. You should sell cards Mod for us.
That’s not revolutionary, it’s pretty simple. But yeah the idea was pretty good
I didn't break anything. I used to say thing to my mom whenever I broke something as a kid. Hehe
Dude! You made Apple so freaking fool making it circle, they'll comeup with a product like that in 2 years.
Because you know, APPLE.
Tile came up with this years ago...
I hide one in my new laptop last one was stolen next is the rest of the items
good job
Did you get the speaker working again? I love this project, might do it myself sometimes👍🏻
New air card coming, along with air dog air car with connected full time power.
Why does no one mention that the sound no longer works? I think this is a big deal.
If you have iPhone 11 or 12 you can use the precision finding, but earlier iPhones cannot and its these older iPhones that will benefit from having sound.
Great video! Did the speaker break?
Thanks Jonathon! Technically the speaker is still working, but the volume is very low and It also didn’t help being inside the wallet. So the speaker is pretty much useless now.
This is because the actual enclosure itself of the AirTag is part of the speaker
Hi Andrew, good job. How do you connected the battery? Did you lost the "sound module" completely?
Here before 100k+ views.
Chipolo has one
The stupid thing can't even page your iphone if you misplace around the house while competitors can.
do you think you can make the speaker working ??
You’re Wallet is huge why would you care about how thick an AirTag is
A some I’ll buy 2 of you’re invention
Apple should hire you, hehe
Nice one!
Thanks so the encouragement!
This focus killed me. But nice project
I know what an air tag is but, what’s a wallet?
WAITTTTTTTT You are the same guy who has a UA-cam Video where you tried to get $1000 for an iPhone ad.. SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESH
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hey Andrew, do you know if this will still function without the NFC antenna section? I think you could get away with just using the main circuit board and battery, but I'm not sure if the other part contains anything else that's important. The only thing I can think of is that it you might need the NFC antenna to communicate with your phone when pairing?
Hmmm, I think the bottom part of the module (the dark grey plastic part) houses the NFC antenna and the UWB antenna used for its precision finding and maybe the Bluetooth antenna? I wouldn’t touch the antenna part because this could render the range of the tag to be extreme short.
@@andrewngai5215 Ah okay, thank you. I read somewhere that it only contained the NFC antenna, and the UWB and Bluetooth Antenna was part of the main board, but I didn't know how true that was.
You :- I didn't break anything 😂,
Me:- i break everything when I open anything
He broke the speaker though.
then the product ends up being called ibreak
I didn’t break anything except the speaker
Hehehehehe🤣😂🤣
This was brilliant. Apple needs to take what you did, probably can make it even a bit thinner and sell it. They also need to then write you a big check.
Why would they write him a check? As if the idea of a wallet sized tracker doesnt exist. There's several on the market, including Tile. Apple wanted to stick with 1 form factor for launch for simplicity, they may have more in the future but that will have nothing to do with this guy's video.
They have already have thought of it. Guaranteed.
@@c.m.7037- Absolutely. Apples’ engineers will already have been working on credit card depth AirTag PCB’s and rechargeable rectangular batteries in a CC-sized housing with slim lightning connectors.
Definitely guaranteed!
Personally, I need the CC form factor to for sliding undetected (apart from x-ray), into my luggage case surround (travelling abroad soon), and into a third party laptops’ interior.
@@c.m.7037 yeah im pretty sure, especially if they want to prevail over tile
Yes, they should write him a check for their own patented technology, that they manufactured and designed.
Thank you everyone for watching, commenting and sharing. I'm just starting out on UA-cam so your support is so appreciated and means a lot! If you have a moment to like this video and subscribe, that would help me out alot as well. Thank you!
P.S. I've received quite a few comments asking about the speaker. Because the original sound was largely amplified by the actual casing of the Airtag, replacing that with the card version has inevitably resulted in a quieter volume. It is definitely something to keep in mind for future iterations and if you try this out yourself.
Edit: I have uploaded an updated version of the Airtag card:
ua-cam.com/video/Dze4L1YuJYA/v-deo.html
Good job Andrew! You made the end product practical juxtaposed to the original wrt wallets ; )
Awesome work!
Andrew, good job. I think the metal circular plate is part of the speaker used to amplify the sound.
Would you be willing to sell this?
Would be nice to connect it to the right solar panel. I'm curious if it loose battery, due to cloud, when it comes back up, is it trackable?
This video is about to blow up isn't it. Just got here from a techcrunch article.
Oh really? Can you post the link here?
@@andrewngai5215 techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/someone-already-turned-apples-airtag-into-a-slim-wallet-friendly-card/
If he soldered a tiny speaker driver to the modified AirTag it is going to be perfect.
no need to, just heat from the back and pull up the copper coil, carefully not to rip the connections to the board and you can keep a working speaker
I would PAY you to make me one of these (SERIOUSLY)
I’ll make it for you
SAME
Send me as many AirTags as you want converting - my fee is £30 per tag.
@@unlokia bro i was First and my fee is 20 bucks so go away
@@cjc8434 The difference between us, “bro” is that I have manners, and also thirty years of electronics manufacturing and servicing industry experience under my belt, in both consumer and military fields.
No need to be so aggressive, it highlights your immaturity and lack of professionalism.
For me keeping the sound function is a must. I was able to get the thickness down to 4.9mm while keeping the speaker functional by trimming the edge of the white shell away, leaving the glue and the back side of the shell intact. I then removed the magnet driver from the inner plastic battery compartment, dropped the driver into the coil cavity and put a pice of electrical tape over it to hold it in place. Then using a CR2016 battery instead of CR2032, I taped the battery into place using the original contacts, then kept taping to hold everything together. It's a compromise for sure, shorter battery life and significantly thicker than the card configuration. But it's 3mm thinner than the original and no soldering or 3D printing necessary. This fits nicely into the coin compartment of my wallet (I live in Europe so coins are a fact of life), and isn't much thicker than Euro coins. Works great!
Genius. Don’t let Apple see this. They will
make one haha.
In all seriousness, I do hope they make a card one
I wondered about this sort of arrangement so it's great to see someone with more skills than I have actually do it! I hope Apple offers this factor soon.
Rollingsquare had an aircard up coming for presale end of Feb
The people who have given a negative thumb is purely out of jealousy because they can't do it themselves 🤫 Well done!
No it might be because this whole vid is pointless because you can just buy a tile tracker that is better then wasting your money making a tracker that will just break if a drop of water lands on it
@@billyherrington6663 You can, but he didn’t. Tile is limited by the number of current active users, Apple has a clear advantage with the number of potential detection devices.
I disliked it because majority of the video was out focus and it annoyed me so much. I really liked the idea but man at least check what you're filming.
@@NanoMine Sometimes the focus was not 100%, but this is no reason for me to dislike. It's the idea that counts.
@@IAmZen_007 I know but he does not seem a newbie in filmmaking, so I expect a decent video. I still appreciate the idea but not the execution. You know what I won't like the video but I'll remove the dislike.
You did exactly what I wanted to do but didn’t have the skill set to make! Good work
Just buy a card sized tracker from tile then they cost £25 and you don’t need to diy and waste time
@@billyherrington6663 Tile’s suck
@@theogeo14 ye and so does this shit this guy made
@@theogeo14 not when you have a bathroom that needs renovating.
You should build more of these and sell them for $40 each! Ik I’d buy one
Replacing the battery with a 2025 or 2016 versions might help, as they are 2.5mm and 1.6mm thickness respectively... may not last as long though.
And carry spare batteries in the wallet or in your bag.
you can put multiple of them in parallel, since there is plenty of space on a card.
such a good video but your camera autofocusing constantly drove my eyes FREAKING INSANE please fix it because it makes your video so hard to watch even though I really wanted to see. BTW I would round the edges of the card in a future iteration.
You lost the speaker and the waterproof features of the Airtag in the process. I am not sure that is such a great trade-off.
not sure how often you go swimming with your wallet, but I might suggest leaving it on the side of the pool - ruins the lines of my trunks 👍
An interesting thought here. You don't *have* to use a CR2032 in this. You could for instance use a CR3032 battery and get double the capacity. Should last 2 years without needing to change the battery.
wait really????
@@kingheeraYes. The diameter or radius (can’t remember) of a 2032 is indicated in the ‘20,’ and in the 3032 it’s a ‘30.’ Area of a circle scales by the square of its radius. 2^2 = 4; 3^2 = 9. So you get an increase of 9/4 = 2.25 in total power. Worked at a battery store and it’s now inextricable from my brain. (The fact, not the battery. My brain does not have a battery in it. Yet.)
@@gabe_owner oh wow thank you!
Beautiful. But, of course, there is no sound, because you left the copper coil in the AirTag's original case (at about time index 4:00). How hard would it be (I really don't know) to remove this coil without damaging it and attaching it to a back-plate (maybe just a thin sheet of plastic) on your enclosure in order to get sound working?
Hi Shamino0, thanks for comment. So the coil is actually quite hard to remove because it is attached using some adhesive such as CA glue and the heat gun didn’t really help a lot (maybe increasing the temperature would help but I didn’t try).
Thank you for this suggestion! It would be an interesting idea to attempt to recover the tweeter capability like you said by attaching the coil to a thin piece of plastic. I might actually give this a try!
Instant subscribe!! Bravo! 👏👏 Now i know it might be literally impossible, but can u make a phone thinner. Any smartphone
Great! Now all I need is an Airtag, knowledge about electronics, pliers, and a 3D printer.
Andrew, could you please also create a shutter release button for the iPhone? It could be very small, attach itself magnetically to the back of the iPhone, work through the Bluetooth, and make taking pictures hundred times easier!
With so many teardowns and hacks already on YT, Apple is gonna shut seal this thing in next iteration. Great job anyway!
I just put mine in the coin compartment of the wallet. :D No extra bulge.
Turn that autofocus off mate.. it's really making me dizzy
Back in my twenties we’d worry about condom rings in our wallet, now we’ve got to worry about airtag rings 😂😁
o...kaaayyy
I hope you don't mind, but i would further improve that, i thought, that you are going to put not sie by side, but inside, just with a tinier frame. What you have done, might not good enough for production. :) I don't feel, that you can't remove the PCB frame, and use different plastics etc to make it tinier, and make an improved version of the air tag, because it's definitely bulky. I would buy from you, Apple sucks. I would also might change the battery type. The main problem what Apple failed on, that you can break 10 air tags, before actually loosing money. (that's what the articles do not mention) I would pay for that watching you to make a better job than Apple did. Airtag is not that complex like an iphone, to put back a headphone jack, what Strange Parts did, so i think you could make a better product easily.
Thanks for the suggestion. Ya, this is just a quick attempt. When I first started this, my only goal was to making it thinner, without the regard for production lol.
Maybe a dumb question, but... Why didn't Apple simply build the board around the battery? AirTags would have been a bit larger, but also half thinner.
Hi Miendo, I don’t think it’s a dumb question as I’m sure the Apple designers have thought through different designs before landing on this one.
But my guess is that with the stacking of the battery and the board, they can achieve the size that will be suitable for most use cases (keychain, lanyard, backpack). And maybe the Airtag being a circle complies to their design language (look at their Apple campus).
Use thinner wires it's a must. I think you need to unsolder the coil terminals first. That metal core needs to be assembled with the coil to.
Woah, Glad to be a subscriber prior to this channel blowing up!
It’s not a matter of Apple can do it now but will they do it.
The quickest way to make it a bit thinner is just getting rid of the metal part and using tape to hold the battery in place.
Also if anyone technically inclined knows if it is possible do deactivate the feature that allows other people to disable my own airtag I would love to know how. Maybe desoldering the nfc coil or something. Its ok if the step also prevents me from acessing the airtag after setup since when its set up I dont need to acess it again. Of course public tracking and finding should still be possible so disableing the bluetooth module is probably not an option.
Apple in a few months: We revolutionised the tracker market with AirTags so let’s go a step further and introduce our latest product, AirCard which is extremely portable and convenient to carry around in your wallet. AirCard works alongside the AirTags using the incredible Find My Network which has been praised and adopted by many
the saddest thing is tat this is extremely likely. airtag is alrdy based on existing technology and product. theres alrdy multiple brand out there, the most prominent one being tile. And tile already have a card version as well. but apple being apple, just putting their logo on existing things ppl will just think is new/revolutionary and ppl will just buy them. the strongest advantage apple have is their brand power which have a big user base and will attract even more, which in turns make the tracking even better. in short terms, its good for users since theres a prominent brand of tracking tag and its apple. long term wise, apple will beat out other smaller competitor and making consumer's option even less, with other phone brand standing out, mainly samsung, which im pretty sure will release smth similar soon.
You should really work on the camera focus, It is supper annoying.
He should just turn off auto focus. The depth of field is big enough that anything on the table should be in focus.
What would be neat is an extended life battery case...holds a larger coin cell or cylinder shaped 3V cell for 7-10 year life as an asset tracker. The airtag electronic half inserts on the end of the now larger plastic battery housing half.
Came from Hardwarezone Singapore great job 👏