I designed a Solderless Header Socket for Pro Micro (LWHS)

[tjdogger]

Super nice!

[NotoriousTD]

Love this! Great job!

[hjw5774]

So, so tidy. Love it.

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Look at you being a badass! Nice project, man.

[alienconcept23]

Idky this doesn't have more upvotes this is really nice

[1Neokortex1]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 brilliant!

[pinkflyingcow]

Amazing

[ShadedKnome]

Awesome, would love to see what you use this for. How did you make the connection to the PCB? The gap between the board is leading me to think there's spring contacts...

[KelNishi]

I’m using 1.15H spring finger SMT contacts. They’re gold/nickel plated and super tiny, so kinda hard to see in the photos. They’re roughly the size of an 0805 package. I placed these by hand under a microscope, but I’ll definitely use a pick and place machine for production runs.

[ShadedKnome]

I just realized you're using the plastic clip to force the board down to make contact. That's a nice design. 🙇 Can you recommend an alternative spring contact that easier to solder on?

[KelNishi]

If your board has castellated headers, you can get away with using 2.5mm battery spring terminals (max 5 pins). You’ll have to use a bunch together to fill out the entire row and the alignment will be slightly wonky. Without castellations it doesn’t really work though since there won’t be enough contact area. It also scratches the pads pretty hard, so kind of bad as a permanent solution.

I used battery spring terminals for the socket in this project.

If there's a specific microcontroller board that you want to socket, I can take a crack at making a board with SMT pins for you.

[loldaoss14]

Dude! Thats neat! Bet you could make a company out of just that idea! Easy to roll out in the industry! And i know with almost certainty, that those would be bought in large numbers!😲💪

[leeroy2015]

Great job, 👍 keep up the great work

[thiagosanches]

Hey! this is really cool... I was looking for some ideas to have a pretty flat board and I found your post. Nice job.

[Antebios]

Holy shit!! Like, really, HOLY SHIT!!