You’ll need the patience of a saint. I’ve worked with these same connectors and I came up with an easier, if bulkier method of soldering those things in my iPod super dock How-To.

Are you like me? Do you drive an ancient vehicle that still has one of them cassette things? Lack an AUX jack? Have an iPod? Then this is for you. Maybe. Introducing one of the world’s most expensive ...

He built the circuit on the legs of a TLC272 OP-Amp with SMD components. The whole thing actually fits inside the cover of a standard iPod dock connector.

A cradle with a vertical plug (Apple 8-pin Lightning or Apple 30-pin) onto which an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is docked to play music and/or to charge the unit. The dock is built into self ...