[TriEmbed] Take 2 - 0.5mm connector WITH PICTURES

[Carl Nobile]

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 <
triembed at triembed.org> 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
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