Right-angle IC socket

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August 28th, 2008 12

I like the solution here for a horizontal accelerometer board on a vertical breadboard. At first he had the entire breadboard at horizontal, but this little hack is a more sensible solution.

[This is from the balancing bot project I blogged about earlier]

12 thoughts on “Right-angle IC socket”

codesuidae says:

August 28th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

Good solution. You can sometimes find right angle DIP sockets in old equipment where they’ve mounted 7 seg LED displays.

Something like these:

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?name=A125-ND

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Gareth Branwyn says:

August 28th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Yeah, there were some of those old-school right-angled DIPs floating around with TGIMBOEJ

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NGinuity says:

August 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am

What are those tines protruding out of the bottom of the circuit board going to the DIP socket called? I can’t seem to find that out, and I need to order some.

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Gareth Branwyn says:

August 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am

Are you talking about the header pins?

http://tinyurl.com/6y9mcs

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NGinuity says:

August 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am

No, the pins that connect the circuit board in the third picture above to the 16 pin DIP socket.

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bob says:

August 30th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

They come with the accelerometer: http://www.dimensionengineering.com/DE-ACCM3D.htm

Confronted with a similar situation, I would undoubtedly use cut-off resistor leads or other scraps of wire… I suppose you could pull pins off a header like the one above for a sturdier solution.

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