I naievly ordered some mini joysticks off ebay and have two problems with them on veroboard / stripboard.
The pins don't match a 0.1" grid of the veroboard. I can put a dogleg in the contact pins and cut off the mounting pins to work around that.
To use the potentiometers, I have to use at least 2 pins in adjacent holes on the same track. The tracks can be cut and soldered to accommodate that, but it's gonna be fiddly as a fiddly thing.
Both are possible, but not ideal.
With custom PCB mounting or joysticks supplied on breakout boards, this isn't a problem, but I'm wondering whether this is just something you have to accept when using some types of components on veroboard? And are there any other clever work-arounds?
My advice would be to choose components that have their pins on 0.1" grid when you plan to solder them onto veroboard/stripboard. But it's less and less easy to follow that advice these days!
There is also tripad board. It's like stripboard but there is a break in the tracks after every 3 holes. This can help with components with pins that need to be soldered to adjacent holes.
I made "resistor networks" (resistor legs like to bend and touch each other, so I shortened the legs and soldered eight resistors into these header pins.
And I made "LED+220ohm" packs for my LED projects.
Next up, WS2812B single pixels... make them pluggable.
I forgot, 10xWS2812 Neopixel sticks for prototyping my lighting sequences.
Yeah ... I know what header pins look like.
I meant have you got any photos where you'd done that with a component where the pins didn't line up with a 0.1" matrix.
I figure that, one way or another, some pins have to be bent, whether that's on the component itself or the headers (presumably male, possibly with extra long pins), so I'm interested to see an example.