{"id":822,"date":"2018-09-23T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atavernier.wordpress.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:51","slug":"8bitdo-zero-battery-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"8Bitdo Zero Battery Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the battery that comes with an item just isn&#8217;t big enough. For example, the 8Bitdo Zero mini bluetooth controller; this controller can be found easily for around $7 and works great with pretty much anything. The problem is that the included 180mAh battery always seems to die at the most inopportune moments. Why not use a spare 18650 you&#8217;ve got lying around to upgrade that capacity to something like 2200mAh?<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, you get those sweet techno-jank points to brag about.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-823\" style=\"width: 3910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/001.jpg\" alt=\"001\" width=\"3910\" height=\"1758\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Totally reasonable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-824\" style=\"width: 3344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-824\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/002.jpg\" alt=\"002\" width=\"3344\" height=\"3000\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original battery was this tiny 180mAh Li-ion package. This meant that an 18650 would be a simple drop-in replacement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-825\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-825\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/003.jpg\" alt=\"003\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2328\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3D printed a nice holder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" style=\"width: 3616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-826\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/004.jpg\" alt=\"004\" width=\"3616\" height=\"2448\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attached everything in place with hot glue and copper tape. Routed the wires through the back cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-827\" style=\"width: 3160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-827\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/005.jpg\" alt=\"005\" width=\"3160\" height=\"2472\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Done! View from the bottom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-828\" style=\"width: 3136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.110.25:8088\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/006.jpg\" alt=\"006\" width=\"3136\" height=\"2556\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not much to this one. The longest part was waiting for the holder to finish printing (about 40 minutes). Some glue and solder wrapped up the rest. Easy 10x battery life! Additionally, it&#8217;s actually a bit easier to hold now with my big people hands.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some handy links if you want to make one yourself:<br \/>\n8bitdo Zero $10 &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2xIFH0V<br \/>\n18650 holder file &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2I6ZX0W<br \/>\n18650 3.7v Li-ion &#8211; Buy online or just salvage a few from an old laptop battery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the battery that comes with an item just isn&#8217;t big enough. For example, the 8Bitdo Zero mini bluetooth controller; this controller can be found easily for around $7 and works great with pretty much anything. The problem is that the included 180mAh battery always seems to die at the most inopportune moments. Why not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atavernier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}