So USB-C. Its obviously the best connector and its possibly the nerdiest wish but im looking forward to the day that its on everything. Type c all the things please.
But how does it work if each end is plugged into the device in opposing orientations?
Does the USB host and device do some sort of handshake to understand the orientation?
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[take a look at the pinout diagram carefully](https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/uploads/articles/Fig1m11292018.png)
Quite a few pins serve the same exact purpose as another pin placed so that it would be in the same spot if the connector was reversed. The rest of the pins are redundant in the sense that they would perform the same function but on a different pair of wires (which doesn’t matter too much).
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