How about a small-as-practical board that takes this connector:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/images … 0Pin-0.jpg
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … cts_id=732
used for, among other things, the color OLED display and brings all 30 pins out to, say, 3x10 or 2x15, 0.1x0.1" grid to ease protoyping and to allow the use of LCDs and OLEDs using this connector to be used in PTH boards?
Or does this already exist? :?:
These aren’t really hard to solder. Also making your own pcbs is a really good practice and you can learn a lot from it, I don’t know why everyone wants everything broken out 
Some people don’t want to take the time to create PCBs or don’t have that option. Not everyone is a hobbyist and not everyone is doing business. Sparkfun caters to both.
noptical:
These aren’t really hard to solder. Also making your own pcbs is a really good practice and you can learn a lot from it, I don’t know why everyone wants everything broken out
Because in many cases, developing on hundred-thou PTH prototyping board or even breadboard is quicker, easier and cleaner than trying to successfully etch ones own PCB with 0.010" pads and spacings. As another example, why would I try to etch my own PCB to prototype with a Maxim MicroMax-10 device when I can dial up Digikey and order a breakout board for that package for just over three bucks?
http://media.digikey.com/photos/Capital … /33010.jpghttp://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSea … 33010CA-ND
Sparkfun already has the display I mentioned broken out on their LCD-00712 development board. However, other LCDs use this same pitch connector but require different connections.
I can make a board like that in about 30 minutes. It beats waiting a couple of days to get one from Digi-Key.
Leon
leon_heller:
I can make a board like that in about 30 minutes. It beats waiting a couple of days to get one from Digi-Key.Leon
And?
Jesus people. This forum is about new product ideas, not debating the merits of etching one’s own PCBs versus purchasing adapters or using breadboard or gasp through hole prototyping or whatever else it is you’re griping about. If you’ve got the tools to do so, bully for you.
Either Sparkfun is interested in doing this or it isn’t. If not, I wish one of their representatives would simply come in and say as much and lock this up to spare us the torture of more unsolicited opinions.
As another example, why would I try to etch my own PCB to prototype with a Maxim MicroMax-10 device when I can dial up Digikey and order a breakout board for that package for just over three bucks?
I was merely answering your question, I didn’t know that it was rhetorical.
Leon
