I know they exist.
There are adapters out there hiding from me that have female pins in a tight row 2 wide, but the other side has males spread out just wide enough for the breadboard middle split.
These allow you to break out pins on boards that have pins in tight rows of 2. I used too use them in elect school, have seen them in videos, but no matter what search terms I guess, I can't find a single one.
An example board with tight pin rows would be the familiar esp8266 (pic attached)...
If you read the OP carefully , he never actually specifies how many pins he needs on the connector but if you use the "example" you gave, it is an 8-pin IDC (Inline Dual Connector)(female)
Unlike the male dual headers, the FEMALE dual headers don't come in a "breakaway" fomat. You can hacksaw off a piece and sand it in a pinch but it's much easier to just buy an 8-pin female header.
I have never heard IDC used to mean anything except "Insulation Displacement Connector"; a quick google search confirms that "insulation displacement connector" is at least the dominant usage - The connector like that that gets crimped onto a cable is an IDC connector (as are countless other types of connector), but the one that is soldered onto a circuit board is not.
I have never heard IDC used to mean anything except "Insulation Displacement Connector"
Really ? I thought it meant : " I Don't Care".
No, seriously, you're right about IDC definition but I thought I remembered using some with female pins on top and PCB male pins on the bottom but I could be wrong about that. I thought the OP was looking for female headers but after rereading the OP a third time I realized he wants a female header on top and pins that zig zag out and down on the bottom so he can plug it into the center of a breadboard but no such connector exists. You can make one usung you pcbs by putting a female header in the center and two male headers on the bottom just far apart enough to match the hole spacing across the center of the breadboard.
Parts list:
1 DrAzzy PCB
1 pcb mount female header
2 4-pin male headers (the type with the .1 inch dia pins that will fit in a breadboard)
from your description, I think you might be looking for these SMD to DIP/SIP breakout boards. In the past, I've them from Ebay. You can take a look at the at the Addy below. I recommend either a US or China supplier and stay away from anything from Hong Kong. The sources below have over 800 different selections from unit count to kits.
OR just type in SMD to DIP adapter in the EBay search bar
In an attempt to lo-tech, I ordered 5 of these on ebay:
The link is here.
I'll waste a column of pins every time I cut them, I think, but I can bend the header pins around, eh? If they are like the pic, I think there is plenty of room to straddle a BB...
