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[John] wrote in with a solution to a prototyping issue that has vexed us for quite some time. Above you can see the DIP friendly solution for dual-row pin headers which he came up with. With just a bit of easy soldering he now has a breadboard friendly device for prototyping. He starts by soldering a dual row pin header on the board, then clips off all of the legs on the outside row. The row of … [Read more...]
[Ammon Allgaier] built a tool that can break apart pin headers with a high level of precision. In the video after the break he demonstrates the built-in features. They include an adjustable stop to select the number of pins you'd like in each chopped segment. There's also a small groove in the input side which the plastic frame of the header rides in. Just insert until it is touching the stop, and … [Read more...]
We're working on a project that has a battery backup, but we don't have any more coin cell holders on hand. No problem, we remember seeing a double pin header used for this. But when we tried to shove the CR2032 battery in between the pins it was a no-go. We could swear we'd featured a project that does this but couldn't find it here at Hackaday. After much searching we came up with the Guerrilla … [Read more...]
Sometimes we want to sit on the back porch, crack a beer, and do some prototyping. Other times we'd like to do the same but on the couch in the livingroom. To that end we added a 5x2 pin to 10x1 pin patch board to our solderless breadboard. The 5x2 pin form factor is pretty common, used as an AVR programming header, on development boards like the Dragon Rider 500 and the STK 500, and in small … [Read more...]
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