{"id":157,"date":"2017-02-05T05:57:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/?p=157"},"modified":"2017-12-01T01:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:30:53","slug":"connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on connectors between the PCBs and off-board components was more difficult than I expected. There are dozens of systems for connections and I wasn&#8217;t familiar with most of them. I ended up buying a grab bag of connectors (for only $7.95) at Jameco &#8211; the process of digging through and sorting 200 random pieces got me familiar with different features and sizes.<\/p>\n<p>I finally spec&#8217;d what I wanted: .1&#8243; pin spacing (compatible with breadboards), a locking connection (so it wouldn&#8217;t come loose during travel), and a variety of numbers of pins. I settled on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molex.com\/molex\/products\/family?key=kk_254_rpc_connector_system\">Molex KK 254 system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on connectors between the PCBs and off-board components was more difficult than I expected. There are dozens of systems for connections and I wasn&#8217;t familiar with most of them. I ended up buying a grab bag of connectors (for only $7.95) at Jameco &#8211; the process of digging through and sorting 200 random pieces  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170205_220818.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pDaO-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}