I am looking to have some of the MiniDIN 6-Pin Connector Breakout boards (links below) created. The website indicates the product is retired from your catalog.
I checked the link to the mbed example on the Documents tab, but did not find any PCB designs. Granted, I am very new to this, so I am not certain what to look for.
Can you please share the designs or other info I would need to have a vendor (PCBWay?) create some of these breakout boards? I am looking to use them for some keyboard projects I have in the works.
Please review and let me know if you have questions or need more info. I have looked on other sites, but since this is pretty old/obscure, I have not had any luck finding similar products. I have the bare PS/2 connector. But I want to solder it to a board for simplicity and easier connectivity. I appreciate any details and advice you can pass along.
You’d just need to put holes for the footprint of a 6-pin Mini DIN on a PCB designer and you could just simply copy the traces that are on the sparkfun one (click the photos and you can see the physical links between the DIN holes and their labeled counterparts on the edge of the board…the electrical connections between them are a slightly brighter red)
It’s just a PCB that routes the DIN pattern into a straight line; the main thing you need is the footprint/dimensions for the 6-pin mini DIN
I also found other companies currently selling items that appear functionally similar
@brow - The eLabBay one is similar. That one has the bare board, which is nice. I could leave off the other pieces, I guess.
@TS-Russell - I don’t know how to do that stuff yet. I want to learn. How can I do what you suggested? Are there some sparkfun tutorials? Can you share sparkfun’s design? It would be really neat to learn and from what you said, this would be a simple one to start with.
Could I just solder the PS/2 port to perf-board? And then solder wires in line with the pins? Would that work?
