{"id":7841,"date":"2012-08-30T21:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2012-08-30T21:10:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:10:56","slug":"pibow-its-official-normal-usb-cables-dont-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/pibow-its-official-normal-usb-cables-dont-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pibow; it’s official – normal USB cables don’t fit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d noted previously that a standard USB micro-b power plug doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit<\/a> into a Pibow<\/a>. I’ve measured the opening in the case at 10.4 mm. This is what the\u00c2\u00a0USB.org<\/a> spec says for the Micro-B plug:<\/p>\n

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A conforming cable can be up to 0.2mm larger than would fit into the Pibow. The rather weak excuse<\/a> given by the designer is:<\/p>\n

My Micro-USB cable doesn’t fit!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pibow supports a wide range of svelte, stylish micro USB cables, we recommend on [sic]<\/em> of these. We may be able to slightly widen the aperture to include more cable. We don’t intend to support cables with large sleeves though, they just look naff \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

While I had the vernier calipers out, I measured all the USB connectors I could find. Not one was under 11 mm, way out of spec, and completely unlikely to fit in the Pibow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d noted previously that a standard USB micro-b power plug doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit into a Pibow. I’ve measured the opening in the case at 10.4 mm. This is what the\u00c2\u00a0USB.org spec says for the Micro-B plug: A conforming cable can be up to 0.2mm larger than would fit into the Pibow. The rather weak excuse given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2230,2551,2510,229],"class_list":["post-7841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-grar","tag-pibow","tag-raspberrypi","tag-usb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-22t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7846,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7841\/revisions\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}