This. This is why Texas Instruments didn’t copy Arduino’s idiotic header spacing scheme. That is a random chunk of perf board, with some wire-wrap female header soldered 1.8” apart. No bending leads, no etching my own perf board, nothing. It’s just friggin easy.

The cost was quite small, compared to cough err, other platform’s proto shields:

  • Perf board ~$0.50
  • Female header - $3

And for the record, I’m planning on putting some flash memory on this shield to turn it into a temperature logger. That project is still pretty far down my list at this point…

[Also for the record, my internship this summer has been CRAZY busy, which is the cause of the complete lack of posts lately. I wish I could write about it, because my job involves stuff twice as awesome as the stuff I post here, but that doesn’t work well when you work for a company based on IP… Don’t mess with a company’s IP.]