I bought the magideal micro usb breakout boards from Amazon, 10 for 6.99 with pin headers. I was pleasantly surprised when they came that they were not separated, and the pitch between boards matched Yuriy's adapter board design. I bent the pins over and rotated them to connect the grounds. The sequence is shown in the first picture. The finished board in the 2nd picture. I finished building my adapter board and soldered the one scales connector board on, and it works perfectly.
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I built the adapter kit yesterday. It went very well. I followed the instructions. They were very clear and concise. It took me sbout and hour and a half. If I had chosen to not lay the Bluetooth module flat it would have been about one hour. Getting the plastic pin header off the module was by far the most difficult part. It would have been easy to damage the module doing this but I was extremely careful (and slow).
This may not be very important, but when I removed the caps from the carrier strips, I deliberately cut the leads so that one leg was about 1/4" longer than the other. I also did this on all the ceramic caps and the resistors. It makes manual board insertion much easier.
When I finished it (see my comments about the scale connections in the forum), it was literally plug and play. It worked perfectly. All I had to do was calibrate my ez view igaging scales (CPI=2561), which are already mounted on my mill.
This will end my beta feedback comments.
Here is a picture of my workspace setup (had to use my wifes sewing table since I didn't want to spend two days cleaning up my workbench in my workshop), and the finished product.
This may not be very important, but when I removed the caps from the carrier strips, I deliberately cut the leads so that one leg was about 1/4" longer than the other. I also did this on all the ceramic caps and the resistors. It makes manual board insertion much easier.
When I finished it (see my comments about the scale connections in the forum), it was literally plug and play. It worked perfectly. All I had to do was calibrate my ez view igaging scales (CPI=2561), which are already mounted on my mill.
This will end my beta feedback comments.
Here is a picture of my workspace setup (had to use my wifes sewing table since I didn't want to spend two days cleaning up my workbench in my workshop), and the finished product.