To connect to arduino Uno, I would like to terminate a cable with a typbe B male connector. I beleive Arduino is USB 2.0, though have not seen that printed yet.
ebay and amazon don't seem to have anything but micro USB kits.
Does anyone have recommendations for a source of a connector kit (would like to terminate wires into the connector, 5V, two wires).
Can't you use a USB printer cable, and cut off the flat connector.
Leo..
I have looked high and low for those with no avail.
I have found and ordered these, but they are 'USB A'.
Maybe get these:
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Here are a bunch with varying prices USB-B male plug .
They start off at .50 and go to $38 for a serious sealed connector
Oops. Probably helps to link the WHOLE link. USB B male
To connect to arduino Uno, I would like to terminate a cable with a typbe B male connector.
Why?
The USB connectors are designed so that you can not plug two USB client devices together and expect it to work. A USB client devices must always be connected to a USB host device.
yelkenli:
To connect to arduino Uno, I would like to terminate a cable with a typbe B male connector.
Which "typbe B"? Mini?
I am powering the arduino without a computer. I could connect to Vin, but Arduino recommends against this. and PowerIn wants 7-12V.
The USB port is recommended, yet the Arduino USB female connector is a rarity. eBay has pages of micro USB connectors. Runaway Pancake's Adafruit link shows all but the Arduino type.
I hate to go Wawa's route, which seems to be typical. So, it looks like Digikey, or maybe detown's link, though that looks like innards only, no molded shell - am I wrong?
Thanks for the recommendations!! If Sparkfun, Adafruit, Arduino etc. is listening, maybe they can offer a solderable/DIY USB 2.0 type B male connector (and update documentation to state the connector type - "USB" is not specific). I will get off my soap box now.
yelkenli:
, though that looks like innards only, no molded shell - am I wrong?
No outer shell as far as I can tell. What you see in the pic is what you get. Larry can add that to his uses for shrink tube
You can do a google for usb type b chassis
got e.g.
Not sure if it meets your needs.
Although nobody likes the waste, I favour @WaWa's solution as being the simplest if you can't find alternatives.
Note:
It is said that you can power an Uno on the 5V pin; not sure how healthy it is for the on-board voltage regulator.
An Uno uses the 'original' type-B (not mini, micro, sub-micro or whatever they will come up with in future 
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I added USB power from my hacked ATX by doing what Wawa suggested: cut the flat end off a printer cable and wired that end into the ATX's 5V.
Bit of a waste, but any port in a storm.
yelkenli:
I am powering the arduino without a computer.
So plug the UNO lead you already have into a USB mains adapter;
Or USB Power bank.
I could connect to Vin, but Arduino recommends against this.
Where does it say that? Where ever it is it is not the case.
If you want to power the Arduino externally then just apply the external 5V to the 5V and ground of the Arduino.
I mean to say 'recommends against powering at 5V'. The problem with Vin is that it wants 7-12V, and I have 5V supply.
Here is a good discussion. It cites some of the Arduino and Wiki warnings about supplying to the 5V pin.
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I will probably go with Wawa's route, though shrink wrapping a solder unit could work also.
Here is a good discussion. It cites some of the Arduino and Wiki warnings about supplying to the 5V pin.
That is simply not true. I have been powering an Arduino this way for years and nothing ever gets damaged, and I am often accused of being over cautious about damage.
There's no fuse for you when applying external 5V at the "5V" position.
In this case, if things get carried away then you take the hit.
That is not to say that excitement absolutely could not result otherwise.
The fuse is there to protect the USB connector in your computer not your Arduino. Electronically these fuses are very slow.