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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: jitspoe on November 01, 2007, 05:40:03 AM
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So I'm rigging up some eyes on my angel, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to connect the wires to the board cleanly. The connector is designed for some kind of ribbon cable or thin circuit board. I think it's called an FPC or FFC connector. I've attached a picture. It's the one with 4 contacts on the upper left. The slot is a little longer than 5mm and wide enough to fit an LED lead in (.5mm, maybe?)
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It's a 4 contact, top-entry, 5mm, 0.5mm pitch ZIF connector. I'm pretty sure your cables for your eye transmitter/receiver drop in there.
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They do if you spend $50 or whatever outrageous price they want for them. Phototransistors and LED's cost like $0.16. I've got like 60 on the way to make the shipping worthwhile, haha.
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That board looks like it was a 6yo's first time using a SMT station. I did a better job than that my first time doing a SMT board.
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You've printed your own circuit boards? Or are you just talking about the soldering job? Looks like any other old circuit board to me.
I'm having a really hard time finding the male end for that connector. I can find stuff that looks almost exactly like what's on the board already, but not what plugs into it. This is what the eye looks like: http://www.skanline.com/pages-productinfo/product-3862/angel-wdp-wdp-reciever-eye-ribbon.html
So I either need to get a couple ribbons like that, or just a connector that I can solder wires onto.
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You've printed your own circuit boards? Or are you just talking about the soldering job? Looks like any other old circuit board to me.
Both.
I'm having a really hard time finding the male end for that connector. I can find stuff that looks almost exactly like what's on the board already, but not what plugs into it. This is what the eye looks like: http://www.skanline.com/pages-productinfo/product-3862/angel-wdp-wdp-reciever-eye-ribbon.html
So I either need to get a couple ribbons like that, or just a connector that I can solder wires onto.
They're just silly little ribbon cables. I would look for one of them in an old cdrom or printer and just trim it to 4 contacts (since you seem like you're in a DIY kind've mood). Soldering the diodes onto the other end may be another story.
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Good call on the printer. I knew I kept it around for something besides testing ceiling mounts (http://jitspoe.planetquake.gamespy.com/images/photos/misc/printer_testing_ceiling_mount.jpg).
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OK I'll bite:
What's the ceiling mount for.....
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OK I'll bite:
What's the ceiling mount for.....
That was for when jitspoe was training to become a professional boxer.
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That was for when jitspoe was training to become a professional boxer.
Haha!
Actually, it was for a projector, but I like bain's idea more.