It all started with our Mike P. while he was thinking how to minimize his travel kit and make it actually fit in the airlines carrry-on allowance. 
This is a challenge when you NEED more than 1 laptop for your activities and on top of that you start to add phones, power banks, headpones and this list can go on for while . It had to be a better way to travel as 2-3kg of chargers only is surely far from efficient. Mike was already using the fairly new USB Type-C connector to charge his phone and a few other gadgets but his legacy laptops ( that happen to be the ones he uses the most) were still using traditional chargers like barrel or square type connectors. Yes there are newer laptops that can take Type-C PD charging but in his eyes, nothing can replace the reliability and the pleasure to type on a Thinkpad X230 or X250. The challenge was on and he looked around for a solution that would suit his needs. The solution came under a board designed by a very smart engineer in the far east. This seems to be almost perfect but it needed a few extra parts around to make it fit in the laptop and allow the electronics to behave as normal due to some differences in the way charging works between the soultions ( original charger and the Type-C PD solution). After a little while he was so proud of the solution that he made a video and publish it online to share his finding with other people that loved Lenovo thinkpads but also to upcycle old laptops. This affair resulted in requests, from others that shared in a way or another is feelings for this laptops, for a product that would not require soldering, kapton tape, hot glue or anything similar. Back to his laboratory desk he thought thru a completly new board that would achieve the functionality but would fit in the exact same and footprint of the original charger port/module. This went on for a while as there have been a few challenges with finding good and reliable parts, finding the proper wire to board connector and finally getting a case designed and figure out a way to materialise the case. Abput a month passed and the product started to get shape in a board just about 10x11mm and packed with components that was wraped in an SLA 3D printed case and was able to fit in his laptop. As the community was very welcoming and looking forward to get such a product, Mike decided to focus his attention in developing more products and this is how DIYLaptopMods was born.