Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Raspberry Pi gpio adapter

The goal

Assemble cable adapter for easy gpio connection.

Usability

Bigger comfort in connecting own devices to gpio pins.

Safer use, Raspberry Pi is in a box and is less likely to accidentally do a short circuit on board.

Parts

  • pinheaders
  • connection cable
  • universal prototype board


Pin adapter

Pin adapter

Perspective view

In a box

Example - AT45DB161D connected

2 comments:

  1. Home-made or from adafruit ? :)

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    1. Of course it's home-made :) If You look closer on the second picture, you can see traces of soldering. Cable is an old adjusted IDE cable from cdrom ended with IDE-like crimp connectors. So only pin adapter was soldered.

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