What I/O boards do users want?

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donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: Australia Posts: 1314	Posted: 10:29am 13 Jun 2011         jebz said   I think if the port from the Maximite had tracks and holes on the bottom of the PCB and the expander had tracks on the top with a grid of non-plated through holes these could enable connections like a pin patch. A number of holes wouldn't be required because some of the functions aren't available on all of the pins. This would enable interface board linking as each board would only link in the devices to the lines that are required. With the pin patch design these interfaces could be made as a fruit salad board containing a few of each. While other boards had say 8 inputs or 8 outputs. The fruit salad pin patch design. _________________________________ What signals to use for what I/O is the age old problem, and different users will have different needs. Would you prefer a sting of non plated through holes that you soldered a wire into, or go for an extra .1" of board length, and have a dual row male header, and match signals to I/O with test or shorting shunts or links? Same as hard drive selector links, lots of different names. These are cheap and can be reconfigured pretty quickly if needed. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com