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Everything worked great, as advertised. Instructions were clear. We will buy these again when we need more.

Thomas | Oct. 16, 2019

A very good breakout board, but difficult to assemble

I would not recommend this breakout board for a beginner. I have a Weller Temperature Controlled Soldering Station and 50 years of soldering experience and found it moderately difficult to assemble. However, once assembled it has worked flawlessly providing easy access to all of the Teensey 3.2 input and output pins.

John | Aug. 23, 2019

Spectacular!!!

Amazing work!
I was having trouble figuring out how to wire everything into my project, and this breakout board makes it all easy!
Three words of wisdom: CLEAN YOUR TIP!!!
Four more: Read the instructions! TWICE!!!

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.

Jon | Aug. 21, 2019

Just what I needed.

Great products, both the boards and the connector set. Good quality. Excellent instructions. Fast shipping.

Thomas | Aug. 9, 2019

Great Product, high Quality and very fast delivery

Great Product, high Quality and very fast delivery to Germany. Very good Documentation, all parts included!.

Five Stars !!

Greetings from Bavaria

Thomas Effendy
Musikandmore.net

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.

Paul | July 7, 2019

Teensy Breakout with Smart Ramps?

My Teensy Breakout arrived quickly and the directions, pin card, and comments here are very helpful. Comments in the documentation concerning any differences between these pin properties and the DUE would be helpful as well.

I want to try using the Teensy 3.6 + your breakout with a 3.3v tolerant 3D printer controller board like the Smart Ramps here on Tindie.com or the Ramps-FD + Marlin 2.0. Marlin uses pin_MCU.h files to match the pins from the MCU to the controller. There are several pin files that are close to your breakout mapping: pins_RAMPS4DUE.h (for MEGA or DUE), pins_RAMPS_SMART.h. I want to make a “plug-n-play” pins.h for the Teensy with your breakout.

Any suggestions or comments?
Have you come across anyone who has done this already?

Samuel | July 2, 2019

Fantastic, can't rate highly enough

I loved the teensy 3.6, so much power, but such a faff off a form factor. I was yearning to use my existing arduino shields. Then along comes the Due breakout board!

Such a great kit with everything you need and well written instructions.

My teensy projects just got a whole lot easier.

Thanks very much
Keep up the good work

Clint | June 24, 2019

Great product

For Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64)

Well thought out, fairly easy to assemble. Good value for the price. Documentation could use photos, but after the first one, assembly is straightforward. The included pinout card is a nice touch. Will buy again.

Francisco J Moliner | June 3, 2019

Thanks

I made mistake and apply for different product explained to seller.
Excellent post selling communication, very helpfully and good quality product. Highly recommend!!!
Francisco

Remi | June 1, 2019

Nice breakout - big USB connector

Nice breakout, wich makes Teensy 3.5 3.6 compatible with Arduino shield.

The USB connector is quite big and I had to cut a shield before I can put it on the breakout.

May be this breakout will be available some day with a mini/micro USB connector ?

David | May 28, 2019

Enables compact implementation of Teensy 3.5

I'm relatively new to electronics and have found in the past that soldering can be challenging (for me) - so was a little daunted reading some of the reviews. I reviewed the kit's instructions carefully and was very pleasantly surprised by the way that my Teensy 3.5 assembled to this breakout without any complications. I am replacing an Arduino Mega (and separate card reader) in a robotics project and will need access to both sides of the Teensy 3.5 - this breakout seems like the best way to do that.

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.

Donald | May 11, 2019

Access to all the Teensy's pins

The Teensy boards are powerful solutions to many problems, but as they've become more powerful, it has become harder to use the microprocessor to its full potential. The breakout board (and socket set) allow you to use every pin. The full-access board is 40 pins long with 0.9" row spacing, compared with the Teensy 3.6: 24 pins long with 0.6" row spacing -- definitely not compact, but that's the trade-off.
I had a little difficulty with the pogo pins, but with good light, magnification and the right tools, the assembly was quick and correct. The instructions are good but a picture or two (from a Teensy forum) assured me that I was doing it right.
A few basic test told me it was assembled properly, but the best test will be a program using all the pins.

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.

Thad | April 25, 2019

unlocks the full pins array of the teensy

I honestly think this should be how the teensy is sold. Without this breakout, the pads from the underside of the teensy become available. There was a great deal of thought built into this design. The assembly instructions are very easy to follow. The durability of the breakout is impressive as well. I've soldered, de-soldered, re-soldered and have not had issues with pads lifting.

In Tall Dogs next revision, I'd love to see one pin strip on each side rail re-attached to GND on a cut-able trace. Also, to have SM pads to easy add external pull-up resisters to the i2C pins, and a pad to add an indicator LED to the HOST-PWR switch.

Brian | April 19, 2019

Awesome kit!

For TinyFPGA BX Breakout (Revision A)

The kit works great, and really makes it easy to connect up all the pins to a breadboard (while looking pretty good!).

You might want to pre-break the two sides of the PCB if you want to take them off... doing it afterwards is hard and probably dangerous.

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.

Christopher | Feb. 21, 2019

An outstanding device I continue to fun with.

For TinyFPGA BX Breakout (Revision A)

I have been playing with this idea to create a solid-state MFM hard drive like the ST-138-1 for a long time. After several attempts, I finally realized I needed the power of an FPGA to modulate and demodulate between data and MFM. I started with the ICE Stick and then discovered Icestudio. From there I learned about the TinyFPGA BX board. I designed an I2C interface that runs beautifully at a rate of 1/2 the clock frequency which is well beyond what any I2C device can run at. But I wanted those extra connections, especially that hard SPI interface and found the TinyFPGA BX Breakout board here on Tindie. Now I can get full use of the Tiny FPGA. I highly recommend the TinyFPGA BX Breakout board.

Davin | Feb. 17, 2019

Amazing Product! Such a great help.

This is the best way to jump over to a teensy based project from working with Arduino. Having access to every single pin on the teensy in a shield-compatible format is great for rapid building and testing of new hardware. The build is extremely simple (as long as you follow in the instructions in order) and takes almost no time at all.

The only issue I've had is the USB sits a little higher than the standard Arduino build out. This caused my shield to ground out and behave erratically. Nothing a little tape couldn't fix.

Dennis | Feb. 10, 2019

Opens So Many Possibility For Arduino Development

Finally an Arduino Due form factor compatible breakout for the Teensy 3.6! This is Arduino on steroids:
- 180MHz Processor
- 1Mb of Program Memory
- 256Kb Static RAM
- Floating Point Processor
AND, it fully integrates with the Arduino IDE!

If you have this breakout and a 3.6 and it can't give you all you computing power you need.........

Pat | Feb. 1, 2019

Teensy 3.5 breakout.

An old hand at electronics, yet new to the world of microcontrollers. Built an analog Synthesizer in the late '70s - not from a kit. Loads of fun but shelved it a couple of years later. A couple of years ago, allowed myself to be bitten by the old Synth bug again and collected a clutch of Roland synths and other goodies which led to my first Arduino project, using a Mega clone in a pedal controller. I trashed four ancient ('70s - '80s) for the optical pedals and yeah well.. it works!

Then I came across this:- https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/gizmo/ and of course put one together, then another etc until now I have this 5-Pack of Gizmos. Next is to pop a T_3.5 in the box with 'em to give the 5-pack a class compliant USB interface, and control surface consisting of forty something buttons, 19 pots, and an encoder etc.

So far I've got one working using a T_3.2 plugged into a Sparkfun adapter with a 3.3volt hacked Sparkfun Midi shield.

Tall Dog's T_3.5 breakout enables me to have access to all pins in a stripboard-friendly way as that's what I'm using.
All pots will be wired direct to analog pins and some muxes are gonna join the party for the buttons.

All the holes have been installed in the box, boards loaded with pots, buttons and it all fits! What remains is laying out and wiring up T_3.5 and associated bits and pieces, more holes and so on. Then to wear out my code training wheels a little more. Hmm the greater part of the task is no doubt the mechanical details.

As for the the Tall Dog breakout. First time I ever ordered stuff from the U.S. Am surprised how quick it arrived. Excellent quality pcb. I read thru the docs and got the gist but am a bit fussy about how things get put together so spent a little time figuring out how to set up an alignment jig and a sequence of where to start and what goes next etc. No stress is best for reliability.

So, thank you Daniel for an excellent product. Keep up the good work.
Cheers
Pat

Aubrey | Nov. 11, 2018

Excellent product for the money

For Teensy 3.5/3.6 Breakout (Revision A, DIP-64)

My partners and I are working on a project that requires access to most, if not all the pins on the Teensy 3.2 and this fills the bill nicely. It is a little difficult to get the 14 pin SMD header soldered in place exact enough to fit the holes in the breakout board but it isn't impossible. Took a while also to get the "POGO" pins figured out and that I should solder the tantalum capacitor for USB Host Mode on the breakout board, not the underside of the Teensy. The Documentation needs to have things like this highlighted so a quick glance for experienced constructors will find it first, not later.

I really like the 2 switches for controlling VIN and VUSB on one side and USB-USB Host on the other side. Also leaving the side header strips on allows one to customize multiple connections to pins that need it. It's easy enough to cut the little between hole jumpers to isolate pins or sets of pins and using 30 gauge wire-wrap wire to make necessary connection to the Teensy's pins on the underside of the breakout board.

It would be really nice if the 4 corner holes were sized for 4-40 instead of 2-56 screws though. Not a lot of people have 2-56 standoffs or other hardware on hand but do have 4-40 in large quantities, myself included.

The board system does have a few "warts" but not sufficient to drop it down from a 5 star rating as once you get it constructed is is really easy to work with.

The actual makeup of the breakout PC Board itself is EXCELLENT! Super quality and with the gold plated solder points, soldering is easy and very easy to clean the flux off if desired.

The only suggestion I have is for you (especially someone new to this type of system) to read the construction manual through several times before starting to put it together. Even experienced builders need to do this (don't ask me how I figured this out - LOL) to make sure you get the steps right. It's very difficult, if not impossible to un-solder the Teensy to get at it's underside if you leave a step out. With the need for the POGO pins, it's impossible to use a socket for the Teensy and it would be really nice if a way were to be found to allow for socketing the Teensy and still have access to all of those pins.

Jeffrey | Sept. 19, 2018

Beautifully designed and manufactured!

Beautifully designed and manufactured, well thought out organisation and packaging of the various parts. Iv'e been too busy with trying to finish a couple of older projects, so have yet to tackle assembly, so I haven't sought out the instructions. I got versions for the 3.2 as well as the 3.5/6 teensy models. Shipment was reasonably quick and I was glad to see them show up on my front step! The PJRC Teensy products are well supported, and thoughtfully designed . They are a nice gateway into the Arm Cortex universe for your average users, so they are a great choice for this seller to make things for. Teensy ARM boards have lots of extra connections, so TallDog, has made access to them much neater and easier!

Steven | Sept. 1, 2018

Nice kit

I enjoyed assembling this board. The only issue I had was that as a complete Teensy newb, it wasn't clear what I had to cut for the VIN/VUSB switch. I did figure it out, but a diagram would have been a plus.

Also, I started with a Teensy with the side pins already installed, which made installing the center 14-pin header a pain. In retrospect it would have been easier to desolder the side pins. This isn't a knock against the kit, since the Teensy normally comes with no pins.

In all, I found this easy-to-assemble and well-made.

Michael | Aug. 18, 2018

No problems - great product

Great product. I've bought both numerous pre-assembled and kit versions. No issues. Requested support once and received quick and helpful response.

Peter | May 24, 2018

A Quality Product Requiring Careful Assembly