I'm relatively new to this and I was curious as to how people generally connect the pins on the project board to a workspace like a breadboard for prototyping.
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After doing some digging (its difficult to find something when you don't know what its name is) I discovered that there are a lot of different connector kits available. I think I'm going to try using molex connectors with crimped terminals. On Digikey:
Hopefully I can manage to crimp the wires without the special tool (I'd rather not pay that much until I'm sure its a system that will work for me.) |
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You can buy pre-made male/female breadboard jumper cables - here's one seller on eBay. For the moment I'm using some single-row pin header sockets, which I've snipped into single or paired connectors with a pair of wire cutters and soldered some stranded wire to. It's far from ideal! |
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Old floppy drive cables work quite nicely, too. Cut the cable in half, cut the connector down to size and melt the "cap" back into place with an old soldering iron, strip a good 8-10mm of the ends of the cut cable and tin them, and away you go. |
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Another way to connect the header rely on a soldered protoboard, turned upside-down, and plugged on top of the header pins with appropriate connectors. Have a look at this guy web site and some pinout pictures. Rem: the unused breadboard of the STM8S-Discovery can then be snapped apart. |
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