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- 1 DB9 solder-bucket connector<\/li>\n
- 1 length of 2-row right-angle pin header<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Method:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Cut a 5×2 block of pin header, and carefully bend one row of pins, so that they end up staggered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- With a bit of gentle persuasion they can now be made to fit into the solder buckets.\u00a0 The spare pin can be extracted fairly easily with pliers, especially if you heat the pin first with the soldering iron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Since I hit on this idea *after* I’d started building a joystick adapter board for the C3 FPGA board, I had to change the plans on the fly, so the finished article is anything but neat!<\/p>\n
It does work, however:<\/p>\n
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- With a bit of gentle persuasion they can now be made to fit into the solder buckets.\u00a0 The spare pin can be extracted fairly easily with pliers, especially if you heat the pin first with the soldering iron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Cut a 5×2 block of pin header, and carefully bend one row of pins, so that they end up staggered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n