A smat way for connecting O'Maxi to a breadboard.

Started by flavigny, October 26, 2012, 02:43:53 PM

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flavigny

Hello,
I have a lot of projects sharing ONE O'maxi.
I was bored to swap individual wires from GPIO 40 pins to my breadboards.
I noted that the 40 pin connector is the same as vintage IDE, so I reused a 40 wires (NOT newest with 80 wires) cable.
For safety, I fill with glue opposite plugs

Oooops, you will see later that it was better to fill opposite lines

I bought form ebay strip of pins, but as delivered (up) the pins have inequal lengths,I had to push them (firmly) to obtain equality (down):


Finally, I plug in breadboard:


As you see, two columns are lost due to the wrong choice of the filled sides; nextone will be better.
I will also probably split the board in two parts for better accessibility.
PO.



jlumme

This is great idea! :D
Now... if I could only find old IDE cable...

Kean

Be careful about what IDE cable you use.
The newer 80 conductor IDE cables are not wired exactly as you might expect.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA