Hi,
I recently got a few NRF24l01s off of Ebay, only to discover that they had a 2x4 header, making them impossible to use on a breadboard. I tried soldering directly onto the pins, this didn't work, I then tried desoldering the headers, this too didn't work. Finally, I used a Xino prototyping shield and a 2x5 (all I had) female header and soldered onto that, this works. Every breakout I've seen for the NRF (apart from Sparkfun, which is a 1x6) seem to have a 4x2 header, which puzzles me. How are people meant to use these in a breadboard? I'm wondering if I'm missong something really basic here...
For this sort of problem the stripboard variant with groups of 3 holes connected is perfect - solder 2x4 female headers across the gap and the 1x4 male headers can be spaced 3, 4 or 5 holes apart.
Thanks Guys - MarkT - that is something I've never thought of doing! Brilliantly simple, and it means I can purchase the NRFs from Ebay for £3.00! Thanks very much!
They work great, just remember sometimes you'll get a dud for no reason and the inputs are 5v tolerant, not a 5v device
wont last long on 5v as I found out unfortunetly
luckily they are extremely cheap and pretty easy to use
I'm a huge fan of these, but was always put off by the cost of the sparkfun units. This is what I came up with, it's ugly, but it works. Next time, I will not use stranded cable. Is there a technique for soldering directly onto header pins like this? I used ribbon cable, which is small enough, but stranded which is a pain to solder. Could be I need some really thin solid core? The end result is pretty cool, a bare shield with a NRF + header soldered into the SMT breakout portion of the shield. Apologies for the poor pic quality!
