balou
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Hi,
I figured out that I ordered way to few brown dog adapters, and I don't want to order any new ones because
1. at first you think that 3$ isn't much, but it's summing up if you need a few
2. shipping costs...
3. shipping time (from us to europe)
So, I thought about DIYing some adapters... but how?
I have two ideas in my mind:
- Use a dip socket, and just spread the legs and solder them somehow to the dip adapter. problem: how do you spread the legs without breaking them, and how do you even fit them in the adapter? you'd have to either use some wire, or make a rather wide solder bridge
- use stripboard and 2.54mm pin strip (umm... this is a very unprecise english translation, but I think you know what I mean). Cut the traces of the stripboard in the middle, so that you have a total of eight separated pads. then do as above, spread the legs a bit and solder them down. you don't need wire or extra wide solder bridges here, but I don't if that'll work.
and third idea would be etching some adapters, but that will be definitely to much work.
has anybody of you already done this? I would be glad to hear if leg-bending works, and pics would be appreciated, too
I figured out that I ordered way to few brown dog adapters, and I don't want to order any new ones because
1. at first you think that 3$ isn't much, but it's summing up if you need a few
2. shipping costs...
3. shipping time (from us to europe)
So, I thought about DIYing some adapters... but how?
I have two ideas in my mind:
- Use a dip socket, and just spread the legs and solder them somehow to the dip adapter. problem: how do you spread the legs without breaking them, and how do you even fit them in the adapter? you'd have to either use some wire, or make a rather wide solder bridge
- use stripboard and 2.54mm pin strip (umm... this is a very unprecise english translation, but I think you know what I mean). Cut the traces of the stripboard in the middle, so that you have a total of eight separated pads. then do as above, spread the legs a bit and solder them down. you don't need wire or extra wide solder bridges here, but I don't if that'll work.
and third idea would be etching some adapters, but that will be definitely to much work.
has anybody of you already done this? I would be glad to hear if leg-bending works, and pics would be appreciated, too