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Teensy 3.5/3.6 Socket Kit

(6 Reviews)

Make your Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout modular.

Designed by Tall Dog, Ships from United States of America

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Make your Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout modular.

Description This kit allows you to construct a modular assembly in which the Teensy doesn't have to be permanently soldered onto its breakout board and instead can be removed and/or replaced with r...

Description

This kit allows you to construct a modular assembly in which the Teensy doesn't have to be permanently soldered onto its breakout board and instead can be removed and/or replaced with reasonable ease, much like a DIP socket.

Included are an assortment of specialized male and female pin headers as well as a few extra-long pogo pins. These components are designed to be used with any of the various Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout kits (available separately). Using this kit will slightly increase the overall height of the finished assembly, which also provides the necessary clearance to install a USB-A jack on the Standard edition breakout without blocking the Teensy's onboard Micro USB jack.

Included Parts

2× Female Header (1×24 TH, Samtec SLW-124-01-F-S)
3× Female Header (1×5 TH, Samtec SLW-105-01-F-S)
1× Female Header (2×5 TH, Samtec SLW-105-01-F-D)
1× Female Header (2×4 TH, Samtec SLW-104-01-F-D)
1× Female Header (2×3 TH, Samtec SLW-103-01-F-D)
2× Male Header (1×24 TH, Samtec MTSW-124-07-F-S-170)
3× Male Header (1×5 TH, Samtec MTSW-105-07-F-S-170)
3× Male Header (1×5 TH, Samtec MTSW-105-22-G-S-200)
1× Male Header (2×5 SMD, Samtec TSM-105-04-F-DV)
1× Male Header (2×4 SMD, Samtec TSM-104-04-F-DV)
1× Male Header (2×3 SMD, Samtec TSM-103-04-F-DV)
4× Pogo Pin (Mill-Max 0908-6-15-20-75-14-11-0)

Rates to United States of America

Shipping Rate	First item	Additional items
United States Postal Service: First-Class (3-5 days)	$4.00	$0.00
United States Postal Service: Priority (1-3 days)	$8.00	$0.00

Quantity	Price
1-4	$19.00
5-9	$18.50
10-24	$18.00
25-49	$17.50
50+	$17.00

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.00)

Documentation: (4.00)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (4.00)

Jon | Aug. 21, 2019

Just what I needed

Very useful products, the board and connector set. Great quality. Excellent instructions. Fast shipping. Could not be happier.

Jac | July 22, 2019

Some Tips

I bought this kit and the Teensy Arduino breakout board (https://www.tindie.com/products/loglow/teensy-3536-breakout-revision-a-uno/), both from Tall Dog. I was happily surprised about the excellent quality of the manual and the packaging. The breakout board even came with nicely printed card with all the connections, that matches the picture on Tindie.

My Teensy 3.5 already had headers installed, and though that helped with the mounting of the surface mount headers from the Socket Kit (because I could use a female header to hold everything in place while soldering), it was also a curse: The Socket Kit is designed to let the Teensy sit closer to the PCB, and the longer pins on my Teensy "bottomed out" before the pins from the Socket Kit could mate with their sockets. So I had to cut all the existing headers down a bit. If I would have known, I would have bought another Teensy without headers, and kept the existing one for breadboard use.

The pogo pins were a bit of a pain too. It would have been great if the holes in the PCB would have been just a fraction smaller so the pogo pins would have been in there tightly and wouldn't have moved around so much. Or it would have been nice if there would have been a template (e.g. a piece of acrylic or a small circuit board or even cardboard) to put over the pogo pins and hold them in place while soldering.

The kit includes two sets of headers for the 5-pin (and 4-pin) through-hole connections. One set lets you just create headers on the bottom and one set has you end up with pins sticking out both the bottom and the top of the Teensy circuit board. I thought it was a great idea to do the double-sided headers, but unfortunately I didn't realize that this would mean that there would not be enough clearance for a shield. No big deal, I'll just have to get some extension headers for shields but it would be nice if the manual of the Socket Kit had warned me about this.

All in all, I like both kits and I may order more if I get more Teensy's.

Donald | May 11, 2019

Good addition to the Breakout kit

The socket kit isn't required for the breakout kit, but I didn't like the idea of soldering the Teensy to the breakout board with no easy way of separating them later. This kit adds one extra layer of connection between the breakout board and the Teensy. You'll have a few parts left over when you use both, so don't worry that you've forgotten something.

Dennis | April 25, 2019

Arduino on STEROIDS!

Brings a level of capabilities beyond standard Arduino boards. I have opted to install a Teensy 3.5 to allow me to use 5 volt shields. Definitely get the socket kit - saves grief later on if you happen to damage the Teensy board.

Chris | March 27, 2019

Perfect dev kit setup for teensy

Do you want breadboard-able access to all the weird little pads and pins available on the teensy? Yeah sure you do! Do you suck at soldering? No, cool. With some patience, a steady soldering iron, and this kit (as well as the other one) you can do all that dev stuff you've been dreaming of with the teensy. And if you screw it up, you've only yourself to blame 'cause this kit is solid.

Travis | March 15, 2017

Great!

I was really surprised at how well documented and packaged this kit was.

I expected a manila envelope with some printed paper, but I got a nice card and pinout diagram. Super impressed!

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