Strip board won't fit

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Hi

I'd like to make a little sheild to go on top of the arduino using a strip board and pins. However the pitch between each pin (top row, between 7 & 8) is too much, so a standard stripboard won't sit on top because the top left pins on the arduino are slightly off spacing.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Perhaps future Arduinos could make sure the pins have spacing so a strip board fits on?

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Mind the gap.
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1232910085

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Right. Thanks.

Maybe future arduinos and sheilds should fix this problem, rather than keeping it forever.