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Monday, January 26, 2009
FFC/FPC Breakout Board

While working on my camera timer project (currently pretty much done, waiting for me to figure out how to put it in a case) I ended up needing to get a smaller LCD display. The one I had been using was just too big for any reasonable case I wanted to use. I found one:

LCDs

The smaller LCD comes with a flat flex cable, and a connector is needed to use it. Unfortunately, these connectors don’t work well for prototyping on a breadboard. For a while, I had soldered wires to the connector. That worked, but as soon as I tried to move anything around, wires broke off the connector and it was just generally a pain to work with. I searched around for a breakout board for them, but couldn’t find anything. So I decided to make my own.

FFC breakout board

Ordering from the least expensive place I could find to have the board made, I ended up with 40 of them. I have no need for so many of these, so I’m selling the extras. They are now available in the store. They are the only thing available at the moment. :)

Posted by alan to electronics at 4:54 pm PT | Link | Comments (3)

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Comment by Steve
2010-01-12 06:58:47

What is the pitch on the connector. I am looking for a .5 mm breakout but this looks to be larger pitch.

Thanks,
Steve

Comment by alan
2010-01-12 10:49:08

This is 1mm pitch. There is a 0.5mm pitch one here: http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/lcd-ext-breakout-of-05mm-fpc-p-200.html?cPath=60_39, but it appears to be sold out. I’m not sure where else you might find one.

 
 
Comment by Allen Stimson
2012-01-06 03:50:32

Can you confirm that the pins exit the rear of the board and connect to the breadboard that way? It is also a 30 way 1mm pitch connector?
What would be the cost of sending an unassembled kit to the UK?
Thanks

 
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