Homebrew PCBs

> An alternative is to use a common board female connector and solder
> that onto your wires.  It would take a lot of shrink wrap and may not
> look so pretty, but it would probably be stuff you have around ?

Yes, but there are also connectors which have individual contacts.
it is only a black plastic housing in which you slide the contacts.
you must solder or crimp the contacts to the individual wires before that.
this type of connector is used e.g. in PCs for the switches, leds, speaker 
etc.
there are single row and two-row types.

I have tried to locate this type of connector here but failed.
I ended up recycling old ones as much as i can.


> Funny how the connectors cost more than the chips !

I HATE it...
the e-mech. components take up half of the whole project cost easily.

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