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]
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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
Yeah, there were some of those old-school right-angled DIPs floating around with TGIMBOEJ
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.
Are you talking about the header pins?
http://tinyurl.com/6y9mcs
No, the pins that connect the circuit board in the third picture above to the 16 pin DIP socket.
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.