I would like to switch the Micro USB connector From Female to Male on the arduino Micro. I have looked but have been unable to find any compatible connectors I can solder onto the board. Does anyone know of any that work.
Thanks for your help
cxhum88:
I would like to switch the Micro USB connector From Female to Male on the arduino Micro. I have looked but have been unable to find any compatible connectors I can solder onto the board. Does anyone know of any that work.Thanks for your help
Did you look at ALL the images of those connectors that Google shows you?
Paul
thanks for the Reply, I have looked through every possible datasheet on digikey and google but unfortunately none have the same housing as the one that comes with the Micro. I am basing it off of the datasheet of the micro USB port that comes with the micro.
I'm not sure you'd be able to find something that would have a male connector on it with the same exact footprint of the female ones. This would be an unpleasant grind through the drawings of connectors online.
A better question is why you want to do this, since the only case in which plugging it in would work would be if the device you plugged it into was also non-compliant with the USB spec. The things that you can plug into phone micro USB ports and then connect other devices to use an "OTG" cable, which does something different with that 5th pin to signal that the device is to act as a host; if you simply replaced the connector on the Micro, this would not be done, and so the phone wouldn't act as a host nor supply power to the micro.
cxhum88:
thanks for the Reply, I have looked through every possible datasheet on digikey and google but unfortunately none have the same housing as the one that comes with the Micro. I am basing it off of the datasheet of the micro USB port that comes with the micro.
Then look at the problem from the other end: Can you find the EXACT device that is used on your board?
Paul
DrAzzy:
A better question is why you want to do this
Thanks for the insight! My plan is to essentially be using the micro that is plugged into the tablet as a receiver (adding a LoRA radio to it). The micro will be printing the data from the receiver to the serial monitor on an arduino app on the tablet. The tablet will be very mobile so having the micro hanging from the tablet would not be ideal.
Yeah, that's not going to work for the reason I outlined above.
I would get an OTG cable, a short one (with right-angle connector if you can find one), and mount the micro on the back of the tablet - having the rigid micro sticking out of the bottom of the tablet is a terrible idea mechanically. The rigid micro is a 3-inch lever acting to help break the connector on one or both devices when it is dropped, pressed against a soft surface, put in a pocket or bag with the micro plugged in, and so on. I've broken multiple boards by ripping the micro usb connector off.
The reason why it would not work is that the type of socket a thing has is indicative of the fact that there are two types of USB devices a client and a host. The PC is normally a host and the Arduino is a client. The USB specifications are such that the only connection that is permitted is a host to client.
You can not connect a host to a host or a client to a client. So you can't do what you want.