I was wondering if I could do some wires for my breadboard by myself and, for my surprise, I discovered that the pins are called Dupont Male Pins. So far so good... But here comes the problem: I can't find the plastic end that covers the pin. So, anyone know how they are called? Where to find them? What they eat? Can they be tamed?
Firstly those pins are wider than 0.1" so don't quite fit together
in a row on a breadboard, and secondly you don't need to make up
jumper wires at all, you just buy single strand hookup wire with a
wire diameter of 0.6mm, then all you have to do is strip the ends, no
other work needed.
Hi, I just go on ebay, check out the auction/free postage for the jumpers and make a suitably low bid.
Surprising how low you can buy them for, just have to wait 3 or 4 weeks.
While you're tinkering with jumpers, make a few with a resistor and led in series in your jumper, with red wire for positive side and black for negative. Very handy for detecting voltage and whether your digital pin is high or low. I keep several around..
pegwatcher:
While you're tinkering with jumpers, make a few with a resistor and led in series in your jumper, with red wire for positive side and black for negative. Very handy for detecting voltage and whether your digital pin is high or low. I keep several around..
Good idea pegwatcher, I have made a set of LEDs on a bit of vero and used a machined IC socket to to plug the wire into, will post a pic later this weekend.