• Minigrabbers!

    Jose Ignacio Romero • 12/08/2015 at 03:27 • 0 comments

    I ordered a couple dozen minigrabbers from ebay. These were fairly cheap but didn't come with either cables or pins attached. Since I have a ton of female to female "dupont" (0.1" header) cable i decided to solder a header pin to each probe.

    It was really tricky to align the pin to the rivet in order to do the soldering, had to use my mini-vise and helping hand at the same time to hold the probe and pin respectively. After doing a couple like this I realized I live in the FUTURE, I can just print a jig with my 3D printer! And so I did! This was whipped up with openscad in 5 minutes, and printed in 15 more.

    I used one of the dupont cables to hold the pin while soldering, that allowed me to do all 24 pins repeatably without the PLA melting completely.

    Tested fit with my wires, probing a random board.