I looked online at digikey.com over and over. I have gained nothing in the form of what type of connector(s) I need.
They seem basic but now that I am searching for them, they are difficult to find for now.
Please let me know if digikey carries these parts and please let me know where I can find them.
Hello,
Please add as much information on the connectors as you can, there isn’t enough information yet to try match a connector.
Do you have any images to provide? you can also email us at techs@digikey.com and we can try get you some alternates.
Thank you
Ryan
1 row, 3 position is male-to-male at 2.54mm.
2 row, 23 position is male-to-male at 2.54mm also.
It is the 10 1 * 4 headers for motors that will need to be placed.
Also…I see that there are a few things on parts I have not sourced just yet:
beagleg/img/bumps-connect.jpg at main · hzeller/beagleg
I am not exactly sure how to place the big, yellow part just yet.
Here is the photo from the above link:
Hi @silver2row ,
Looks like your PCB is newer design than the one shown in the photo, thus you may not need the big yellow thing (probably VDR). It is likely replaced with something smaller.
For the pin strips, you can purchase longer ones and cut them to the correct size (i.e. can cut 2x30 to 2x23). Make sure that the selected pin strips go to the provided holes. Pin strips typically tend to have thick legs, which require 1mm holes. Check the hole size before purchase.
Cheers, heke
Looks like you’re just looking for Beaglebone male headers. The functional term to find such connectors is “header” rather than “male-to-male” connector.
A “Female Header” would look like this:
For other options of male headers, here’s a link to one and two row square headers with 2.54mm pitch spacing.
Anyway, we actually happen to carry a 2 x 23 pin header from Adafruit intended for this purpose here:
If you’re looking for those 4-pin headers with the one-wall shroud from your image:
Here’s a link to possible options for those.
@David_1528 , thank you.
I could not find the heavy pin headers/connectors with the one-wall shroud.
@heke , Yes. I am getting closer. I need to figure out the to-from data on the hole spacing.
I figured some larger I/O at 5.004mm was a bit odd since I could not find the perfect match but 5mm is fine enough. 0.004mm is micron size anyway.
And A-Okay about the VDR-varistor. I think the newer versioning can use some type of capacitor.
I think. I will need to review things as usual.
And to me for future reference, @silver2row , I need to make sure to read the errors on Kicad so far. There is a small gitlab reference where a fellow person on the forums for Kicad decided to make a push for v4.0 to v10.0 with ease.
This ease was not there while I was trying to build the repo with updated distros and even on Windows, the build (mostly me building) was faulty. So, there are some steps so far I did not know I had to take to get this build progressing. Thank you for the hardware insight.
If I can figure out how to finalize and summarize things one day, I shall be back with a small donation to Kicad for allowing me to download their ultimate source code from gitlab and have it readily available for use.
and I cannot forget the 2 * 23 headers. I have them in stock. I just figured it would be easier, my equipment keeps breaking (aw) or someone keeps breaking it, to have a PCB mfg. attend to the board and fine details with machines.
