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Development Boards Arduino
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A clamp for mini boards that indexs into the holes of the pro mini board and brings out to a header for the FTDI programming cable for those applications that do not need the header installed.

Similar to the old DIP diagnostic clamps for TTL debugging.

Mike

2

That’s a great idea!

Not sure anything like that exists, but you might be able to cobble your own with some protoboard, some pogo pins, a hinge, a spring and some screws.

3

Found some things on thingieverse that I can 3dprint and will do the job.