DIY Projects with Anker Products anyone?

#1

I was curious if anyone else had some cool FIY projects they used Anker products for?

I purchased a pair of Plantronic Gamecom 780’s of eBay for roughly $40. When they arrived the cord was terribly mangled and the headphones would not work (they actually disabled my wifi card when plugging them in).

I purchased a 10ft Red Nylon braided USB cable from Anker (gold plated too, oooooh), popped the headphones open, stripped the micro USB end off the Anker cable and soldered it into the headset circuit board replacing the old cable.

The headset works perfectly now and I even have a slightly longer cable that I KNOW won’t fray and mangle as easily!

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#2

I’ve had to use a needle and or other tools to bend the connector prongs upwards for it’d stay connected to my phone better. That’s about it.

#3

Been trying to figure out how I can use multiple Anker Classic Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speakers throughout the house. I’ve been doing my signal measurements and a couple of spots exceed the BT range. But not sure yet how to tackle multiple speakers playing from same source at the same time. I’m determined to find a way.

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#4

My only problem with this approach is that Anker cables often don’t meet their published length - my 6’ PowerLine+ is actually 70.5" - there are similar shortages on other products as well.

Unless you’re waiting until the cable gets there, you may find yourself a little short for those “fitted” projects.

#5

@djreisch Thanks for starting this topic! I’m curious to see what people have to say.
I was able to get a pico projector on Prime day this year and have come up with a very portable and minimal projector set up for my backyard theater. The best part is that thanks to Anker, I can have it all be completely wireless. I just use a PowerCore battery to power my Chromecast and the speaker (also Anker) and projector both run on battery power. The speaker, while bluetooth, also has a Aux in which is what I use since even if the projector had Bluetooth the audio would be all out of sync with the picture. The Aux in does a great job of staying sync’d up. Then, once I’m done watching my movie/show I just unplug the Chromecast and plug in the projector and speaker to charge. It all goes back neatly in a little box and up on my shelf. The fact that Anker can charge two devices at 2.5 amps is what makes this whole thing work so well! The projector battery lasts about 90 minutes, and can only charge and play simultaneously with more than 1.5 amps. The Anker battery can power the Chromecast and give enough juice through the second port to charge the projector and power it.

#6

One way you could do it, though it wouldn’t take advantage of the Bluetooth is to get a couple of Chromecast audios so that you could group them into one speaker. And seeing as the Ankers are so cheap for the quality you get, that extra $35 for the Chromecast Audio will still get you close to some of the big brand names for WAY less. Keep us up to date on your project.

Now that I think about it (I was going to be done, but nop my mind is spinning now ;)) since the speakers are all battery powered, you could just make a set of portable speakers in addition to ones you wanted to stash permanently. With a PowerCore mini you could power the Chromecast Audio, and the speaker would run on battery, and once you set up the Chromecast groups, you can take them anywhere on your network and they’ll “just work”. I might actually try this…