Connecting a 2x9 2.54 mm camera to a breadboard

Hello everybody, first post so please excuse my noobness.

I have a camera that I want to wire to an Arduino Leonardo. The camera has a 2x9 grid of male pins 2.54 mm apart. I have some basic electronics experience but I can't find any way to easily prototype the circuit without connecting 18 jumper wires and having a whole mess of wires going straight from the camera to the Leonardo.

I was wondering if there was some sort of adapter with 18 2.54mm female headers that can bridge the center gap of a breadboard and allow quick prototyping. To try and clarify, I want to 'spread out' the two rows of pins and connect them across the center of the breadboard where ICs would typically connect. I imagine the device would look something like this:

but I don't know what to search for or whether anything like this exists. Any advice would be helpful :slight_smile:

JJ

PS this is the camera I'm talking about:

Hi janejr11,

I had a similar problem with some nrf24l01 modules (8x2 pins). So I made up a couple of adaptors using pcb header sockets, header pins and small pieces of tri-pad board. Tri-pad is like vero-board or strip-board, but with a break in the conductor between groups of 3 holes.

That is a good idea. Better than what I came up with.

The Rasberry Pi has 2 rows of 13 pins. So you can find various breadboards that take the 2 rows of 13 pins, and bring them out to breadboard fashion. You would only use 9 of the 13 rows, and ignore the printing for the pins. For example, here is the Adafruit Pi T-cobbler: Adafruit Pi Unassembled T-Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi : ID 1105 : $6.50 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits.

Adafruit also has 3 perma-proto boards with 13 pins for the Rasberry Pi connector if you want to solder things down:

With these perma-proto boards, you would need to order the cable as well (the cable comes with the T cobbler board): GPIO Ribbon Cable for Raspberry Pi Model A and B - 26 pin : ID 862 : $2.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits