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This 3D-printed casing enables Android OS on an iPhone

By Liu Hongzuo - on 8 Jun 2016, 11:28am

This 3D-printed casing enables Android OS on an iPhone

 

You're looking at a 3D-printed phone case that enables an iPhone to run a full-fledged version of Android OS. As sacrilegious as it sounds, this is an achievement for Nick Lee, developer and CTO of Tendigi.

For this to happen, Nick used the source code from Android Open Source Project to create his own version of Android Marshmallow (Android 6.0 OS). Nick then placed the Android OS on a chip-board he purchased. To run the board securely, the developer 3D printed an iPhone enclosure with blueprints found on Thingiverse. Within the enclosure, Nick included a battery, a boost converter, and resistor. The rest of the work was up to Nick’s discretion, as he refined the enclosure by making it lightweight and more like an iPhone case. As such, the 3D-printed case is essential to the iPhone hack.

The finalized version of the 3D-printed phone case with the necessary hardware.

The Android OS was booted via a custom iOS app made by Tendigi, and Nick used an iPhone 6s to do the job. According to Nick, the whole process took many days, and therefore isn’t very practical, even if the process itself was interesting.

Hacking gadgets to run their respective competitor’s software isn’t new to Nick Lee. Last month, the same developer made an Apple Watch run an emulated copy of Windows 95. Tendigi is a mobile design and development studio based in New York.

For some visuals, you can watch the video made by Tendigi below.

Source: Tendigi via The Verge

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