geek and proud » electronics http://www.geekandproud.net Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:40:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 FFC/FPC Breakout Board http://www.geekandproud.net/2009/01/26/ffcfpc-breakout-board http://www.geekandproud.net/2009/01/26/ffcfpc-breakout-board#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:54:04 +0000 alan http://www.geekandproud.net/?p=1816 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. :)

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