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Macbook Pro M1 16 inch speakers: I need the cable to be longer so I can use the speakers outside of the Macbook enclosure

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(@johnnydub)
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Hi,

I want to put a M1 Macbook Pro 16inch (without the screen) inside my Korg piano and turn the Korg into a laptop form factor with piano keys added on top. But I need the Macbook speakers to be on each side of the Korg's enclosure. The Korg is wider than the Macbook, so I will need to make the speaker cables that connect to the Macbook logic board longer. These cables are very small and fragile, how can I make them longer?

Thanks for the help!

 
Posted : 12/01/2025 8:46 pm
marcdraco
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Photograph? I know what you mean about those wretched internal cables, absolutely nightmare. This is this is true cost of factory production where machines do all the really tricky work. I got a laser toy for the cat a week or so back (Ali) and it almost caught fire within seconds of being turned on due to poor quality soldering - and zero protection.

Amazing how much those little LiOn cells stink!


Take everything I say with a pinch of salt, I might be wrong and it's a very *expensive* way to learn!

 
Posted : 12/01/2025 10:13 pm
marcdraco
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No worries.

Um... figured that might be how they'd done it. Those are custom flexible ribbon cables, which means specially created boards if you wanted to break out the cables to something a "hooman" can work with. The clips are available but I don't know the pitch or type someone else might have an idea but without that we're on a hiding to nothing unfortunately.

This is the price of miniaturisation unfortunately.


Take everything I say with a pinch of salt, I might be wrong and it's a very *expensive* way to learn!

 
Posted : 13/01/2025 12:54 pm