MichaelMeissner
Senior Member+
Every Friday, I check Sparkfun to check out the new products. Rarely, I see new shiny at Sparkfun that interests me (Adafruit more often produces something interesting). But occasionally, Sparkfun does come up with something new.
This week, they started selling a Teensy stacking header kit (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13925), which consists of 2 14-pin stacking headers, 1 5-pin stacking header, a 5 pin male header with one pin removed, and the SMT header that you can solder underneath the Teensy 3.2 to get access to the pins. The SMT header would be needed to pair with a board like TallDog breakout board (https://www.tindie.com/products/loglow/teensy-32-breakout/?pt=full_prod_search).
The parts in the stacking header kit do make it a little simpler than DIY (cutting down larger stacking headers and using a rotary tool to smooth off the edges, and using pliers to remove one pin from a standard 5 pin male header). It is curious that they used a male pin header for the inner pins (Vusb, AREF, A10, A11) instead of a 5 pin stacking header with a pin removed.
This week, they started selling a Teensy stacking header kit (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13925), which consists of 2 14-pin stacking headers, 1 5-pin stacking header, a 5 pin male header with one pin removed, and the SMT header that you can solder underneath the Teensy 3.2 to get access to the pins. The SMT header would be needed to pair with a board like TallDog breakout board (https://www.tindie.com/products/loglow/teensy-32-breakout/?pt=full_prod_search).
The parts in the stacking header kit do make it a little simpler than DIY (cutting down larger stacking headers and using a rotary tool to smooth off the edges, and using pliers to remove one pin from a standard 5 pin male header). It is curious that they used a male pin header for the inner pins (Vusb, AREF, A10, A11) instead of a 5 pin stacking header with a pin removed.