Simple 3D Printed Micro:bit connector



Simple 3D Printed Micro:bit connectorBy: Ladi@I heard for the first time about MicroBit at Unconference MES organized by charismatic James from Stemhead Maker space in Shenzen. It grabs my attention. Simple, but powerful design, a great development environment and a lot of examples. Nice way to teach programming with real-time interaction and even “interrupts”.I was so intrigued by the whole “micro bit” thing, that I bought one and googled about history. Micro:bit was initiated by the Micro:bit Education Foundation in 2016 with the help and cooperation of the lot of companies, including giants like Amazon or Google. The best part of it is, that was given for free to 1 million students in UK... has robust connector with the all inputs and outputs and 5 of them are big for easy experimenting. It is expected, that will be used with the “alligator clips”.410210020320However, alligator clips can move easily, eventually to shortcut some other pins with unpredictable consequences.There is a plenty of micro:bit connectors you can buy, but for the simple projects it just “too much” and too expensive.While I was listening James to teachning about microbit I got a simple idea for 3D printed micro:bit connectors, that can be used for any simple project. Connection is fixed and very reliable. This is micro:bit with the printed connector. 3D model and even GCODE ready to print (on the JellyBOX – PLA), is located in:, that in this folder is also zipped file microbit resources.zip I put some useful stuff here. 3D model is: LGD MicroBit Contact Socket RC1.stl Print it from PLA, Z resolution 0.3mm, infill 20%, 3 walls – orientation as shown on the picture below. On the JellyBOX 3D printer it takes about 20 minutes (to learn about JellyBOX: )The one “ready to print” from PLA is:Jellybox-readytoprint- LGD MicroBit Contact Socket RC1.GCODEIt was sliced for the JellyBOX, but will work on the most printers.HOW TO USEPrepare wires (24 AWG)– remove about 25mm (1 inch) of insulation and twist them.Push through the holes in connector: 1369570Push the micro:bit to the connector:Here we are, it is working great!Advantage of this connector is, that you can make is as a part of any other 3D printed part, like robot, car, etc.This design is free to use under license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Free to use, modify share…Give some credit to Ladi from JellyBOX EnjoyLadi1504950-163194 ................
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