Surface Mount to Right Angle Header pin
speewave
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i'm adding a few components to my propeller breadboard project that are Surface Mounted (for PCB's)
These are
2 Super Nintendo Adapters - (unsoldered from a multi-tap)
1 SD Card Interface
Now i'm buying 40 Right-Angle Breakout Header (4 being used for prop plug interface)
can i solder the connectors to the header (for a nice clean setup - opposed to soldering wire to the pins and everything hanging all over the place
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also where is a good schematic for adding SD Card to my propeller project
These are
2 Super Nintendo Adapters - (unsoldered from a multi-tap)
1 SD Card Interface
Now i'm buying 40 Right-Angle Breakout Header (4 being used for prop plug interface)
can i solder the connectors to the header (for a nice clean setup - opposed to soldering wire to the pins and everything hanging all over the place
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also where is a good schematic for adding SD Card to my propeller project
Comments
Check the Parallax store, and search for Your SD Card, You should be able to find the schematic there.
As to the soldering of the connectors to the header, I would need a picture of the items in question.. not sure what You want to solder up.
However, My rule of thumb is to not leave the iron on any pin longer than an honest three seconds, (don't panic and count to fast...)
But I am not sure that is what kind of info You are after...
Anyway's, welcome to the forums.
well i was just going to solder a few things with surface mount (like an SD Card that is soldered directly to a PCB) to a few right angle through hole header pin (for Breadboarding)
i didn't know if you could do such a thing... (i've never done it, still decently new to soldering.. done a small PCB at school)
Find an old electronic thing, something with a circuit board, that You know is trash, then...
Proceed to trash it some more... unsoldering things using soldering wick and pliers..
Then Try soldering things back into and onto the sacrificial circiut board..
Try Duplicating the joint You are trying to make..(parts locations, clearances,ect, ect..)
The Radio Shack way is to..
Buy all their stuff...
Either way, Practice makes perfect, (or pretty good if You practice long enough...)
As a disclaimer : I am not suggesting, You use Your little Sisters Radio for this experimenting...(unplug whatever you use though..)
I have attached The Propeller Cookbook by Jeff Ledjer, there are a lot of good idea like how to make a SD card, RCA jack for TV, NES controller connections and more...
trashing my SNES Multi-tap
getting things as cheap as possible
i saved a fortune by buying the 2 RCA and 2 PS/2 Inputs i need with separate PCB Breakouts from sparkplug then to (i think it was 8 bucks for something that would cost me so much more from parallax (~20 bucks for 2 RCA and 2 PS/2 - (could have also gotten the VGA Output ps/2 combo.. but just didn't see a NEED for vga..)
also buying the SD Card adapter from sparkfun ($4) vs. their breakout board ($10) and Parallax's ($10 or $12 *parallax's being more worth it with built in resistors*)
@electrosys
Thanks for that.. a lot of cool things you can add.. This Really helps out