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General Category => New Product Ideas => Topic started by: drazed on March 07, 2016, 07:03:23 PM

Title: gap connector (without shield)
Post by: drazed on March 07, 2016, 07:03:23 PM

The connector (double-sided) that is on most shields, but without the actual shield board.  To allow leaving a larger gap between boards (for heatsinking, or space for proto-board wiring on the double-sided connector protoboards.
...
----- <- other boards
 -
 -      <- gap connector
 -
----- <- proto board
 -
----- <- processor board
...
Pretty much like the ribbon connector but without the actual ribbon in the way.

This could also be used to jam a lipo in the gap between boards and keep things nice and clean.

Title: Re: gap connector (without shield)
Post by: Ben Rose on March 15, 2016, 06:42:32 PM

I've actually used our bottom+top connector proto board for this purpose- you can trim it down to the first set of 0.1" holes, leaving about 20x8.5mm of board.

With this I was able to stuff a 70mAh lipo between a TinyScreen+ and TinyScreen for a double sided screen about 12mm thick :)

Title: Re: gap connector (without shield)
Post by: GordieGii on September 09, 2016, 06:08:16 AM

I don't see why you couldn't solder the male and female connectors back to back...

Title: Re: gap connector (without shield)
Post by: calvinthedestroyer on October 18, 2016, 10:46:33 AM

Just trim a protoboard down.

You would need a microscope to solder those headers together. :)