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Oct 22, 2014

Making travel cables

Turn old cables into a smaller version for traveling.

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Travel cables

Over the last year I’ve been traveling a lot. One of the reasons is shooting videos all over the place. Shooting videos means carrying gear along with you. Camera, microphone, charger, hard-disc, phone and so forth. I got used to the gear, but get annoyed by carrying all the long charging cables with me. Either I forget to pack one, or they are tangled up into a big chunk at arrival.

There are many companies that are selling tiny versions of the current cables. But there is no need for me to have super-tiny cables, I just want to have a set that I can always leave in my backpack so I won’t be able to forget, and which don’t get tangled up. And besides, there are millions of unused cables out there, no need to buy new ones.

The plan is boringly simple:
Turn old cables into a smaller version for traveling.

Here is how:

Gathering cables
Dive into your cable box and score some old cables, if you need others go to a second-hand shop. Here are lots of them.
Tool setup
Cutting the cable
Cut the cables into small lengths. Make sure to keep enough wire to strip.
Stripping the wires
Cutted cables
Soldering back together
Soldered everything back together, make sure the weld is strong.
Cover them with tape
Cover each solder with some tape to isolate them from each other.
Categorizing
Add coloured tape to easily recognise them.

That’s it. A set of cables that you can always carry along with you. Oh, and a tip: carry along one usb extension, in case you need full length. Bye forgotten cables, bye tangles

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