That makes sense, i played with a âdifficult readerâ the last few days, and got repeatable results with both, but the xMagic was more picky on the actual placement while the xEM was more forgiving.
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I think I havenât thrown it away yet 
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Anyone know where one might find a compact microsd card to female usb c adapter?
I want to make a local storage attachment for watch, but can only find male usb c or female usb a
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If you want, I could help you try again?
Provided, itâs not as easy without having the device on my bench. But still, Iâm always willing to help with such things.
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Circuit gurusâŠ
Tell me how Iâm stupid here.
Could I take these 2 and solder them together to get a functional usbc female to micro sd adapter?
Use case, design and print a small housing for such that lives on my watch band, when needed, grabs nearby phone cord, plug into adapter and computer and do data?
The Ti chip on the microsd breakout is a level shifter. Itâs there to make the microsd socket safe to use with 5v microcontrollers by shifting the inputs (CS, CLK, DI, maybe CD) down to 3.3v but itâs not a USB interface. You will need a controller, likely mass storage controller, that âspeaksâ USB.
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Balls
What about hypothetically taking an existing micro sd to male usbc, tearing it open, and swapping the usb port
(thereâs so much easy material there for a supportive trans joke in there somewhere, but Iâd botch it haha)
honestly though.. just get these;
Glue the F2F USB-C adapter on if you need to. Youâll still be smaller than those two adafruit boards combined. The reader is even compatible with âLixusâ ! 
I think youâd have to physically cross all the pins, so like leftmost pin on the socket to the rightmost pin on the PCB etc. Itâs not a straight swap-out.
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Itâs pretty suprising I canât find a single one with a female port⊠Iâd figured SOMEONE would make one
Ironically, nearly all the m.2 micro enclosures are the exact opposite 
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Iâve seen a lot of strange cable configurations but I think the issue is the microsd part of this equation.. that makes this a pretty niche requirement. Speaking of.. why do you need a female end on it? You want to put a standard male / male cable between reader and host device?
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Pretty much
That means carrying around a cable
Iâm expecting either usb c to c or usb c to a to be scroungable wherever I go
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I still vote for the F2F adapter glued on the end. Done and done.
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I like your idea, but as it appears that NOBODY makes one, you could make your own which would be cool, OR you could pivot, and get something that does exist and is easily accessible and make a holder for it on your watch band
Almost achieves the same thing, but rather than plugging into your âwatchâ, you plug your âwatchâ in 
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I think I can pivot in a better direction
instead of micro sd to female usbc
There are plenty of tiny micro sd to usb A, and then a small usb a to usb c female female
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Get out of my head, thatâs exactly what I was going to sayâŠ
This one technically qualifies but itâs rather big: CARD | KC7
There are chinese clones but the ones Iâve seen have Qi charging and this makes the electronics a bit large.
USB C is mostly symmetrical so that itâs reversible, and if the reader is USB 2 youâd only have to worry about the D+ and D- pins. For USB 3, things get a bit more complicatedâŠ
Another option would be to design a reader from scratch, as long as youâre comfortable with soldering tiny pins⊠But then again, swapping out a USB C connector will also require messing with tiny pinsâŠ
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what voltage does your GPU runs at?
your GPU is gonna burn LOOOOOOG before its gonna smell like ozone
just saying 
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