Hey so im having this problem with the unpluging of the pins whenever I have to rearange something everything else gets disconnected.
I then have to open the program to see what goes where again and it's just too much huzzle is there a way to fix the dupont pins in place on the arduino that I'm not aware of maybe?
also I'm going to arrange everything in a electric box and at that point I want to avoid the unplugging of the pins as well.
I'm thinking about gluegun or tape to at least hold it a bit together while I fix them in the box. But probably there are already solutions to this!! right?
Dupont pin jumpers are a great timesaver, but are often "loose fitting" on inexpensive solderless breadboards. Larger name-brand solderless boards are of a higher quality and the internal spring contacts (I have found) are significantly tighter.
I also recommend a good quality 22/24G solid copper for all power and grounds: cut and strip to fit specifics - this gets the DC off the flimsy jumpers.
Hot-glue, epoxy, superglue all sound like a bad idea. I have successfully used UV activated adhesive on delicate solder connections and on long cable runs to tac-down connections: use sparingly and it can be released with an x-acto blade.
Disconnected from what?
I use a strip of protoboard. There I solder male duponts and their corresponding wires. Works fine inte the controller female dupont.
I put a slight kink in the male Dupont pins when assembling projects. Works to plug into the Uno but I have a stack of useless breadboards where the plugholes lost tension after a couple of uses.
Many breadboards are likely low cost Chinese crap. More crap... The commonly used test cables (also Chinese?) have a round male, not a square dupont type. Don't sneeze when breadboard is used.....
The same poor connection arises when those round connectors are plugged into the controller female duponts.
Isn't Chinese a synonym for crap, in Australia it is almost impossible to source anything but substandard Chinese whatever you are shopping for
mick in glen innes 2370
Eeh, aah... Not always but too often crap. If not, the poor packing, no protective bubble wrap, makes things crap, damaged, or even lost in transport. It's not easy to see the difference between crap professional things and reasonably good hobby stuff.
Yes. We are all gamblers, taking the chance that the stuff might be possible to use for some time..
What's sad about Chinese sales is their total unawareness of the after market, the importance of support for advanced products.
I never buy sensitive, costly advanced stuff that might need support.
Yes, but consider the middleman marked up, expensive stuff that is made in China and sold in domestic markets. Then sold with little or no real documentation or support, sometimes only a user forum for help. Isn't that worse?
