No - the one on the White board is not the standard 0.1 in connector. It is 0.5 mm. That is the problem. And it is the same ribbon as the blue board.
Charles J. Lord, PE President, Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation Past Chair, IEEE-USA Consultants Committee Life Member Chair, IEEE Western NC Section Chair, IEEE NC Council Co-Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2025 [email protected] On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, 4:22 PM Carl Nobile <[email protected]> wrote: > The 1st one on the blue board is a flat cable connector that is often used > to connect a keyboard to a computer, and is not easy to work with. The one > on the white board is a more standard 40-pin connector, probably > compatible with the one I was talking about before; however, there's no > locking mechanism, as the one from Amazon has. I see no easy way to mate > the two since they would use different types of cables without an > intermediate board that has two connectors on it. > Someone else may have more experience with this than I do, however. > > ~Carl > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all- >> >> I'm stuck trying to find what should be a simple cable or connection. I'm >> working with a development board that brings all of its I/O through a >> female 40 pin IDC connector with 0.5mm pitch (see pic 1) and i need to >> bring it out, preferably to a 0.1" pitch that i can work with. All im >> finding are cables designed for FFC /FPC zif connectors like the example >> breakout board in the second pic (even Amazon stocks that kind of board). >> Any pointers to that cable? Thanks in advance! >> >> NOTE - THIS IS NOT A 0.1" SPACING CONNECTOR >> >> Charles >> >> >> >> Charles J. Lord, PE >> President, Blue Ridge Advanced Design and Automation >> Past Chair, IEEE-USA Consultants Committee >> Life Member Chair, IEEE Western NC Section >> Chair, IEEE NC Council >> Co-Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2025 >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> Searchable email archive available at >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Carl J. Nobile (Software Engineer/API Design) > [email protected] > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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