Douglas | Dec. 30, 2017

Martin | Sept. 25, 2017

Paul | June 6, 2016

Ontje | Oct. 22, 2015

Perfect for tiny projects

This is a great little adapter! I pre-tinned all the pads on the PCB used some scotch tape to hold down the pogo pins while soldering - which made it actually quite easy to get this tiny thing assembled. Saves so much space on the PCB I could actually fit the ISP header inbetween the SOIC ATtiny84 pins and now program from the bottom side of the PCB.

Response from madworm | Oct. 23, 2015

You know what, I've never tried taping the pins down myself. Maybe I should give it a try :-P

Bernie | July 23, 2015

Difficult to solder but well worth the effort

As others have said, even though it is extremely difficult to solder all the pogo pins so they remain parallel and unbridged by solder, this is a fantastic little kit that is well worth its cost. My board designs are now much more compact.
I am waiting for my first batch of boards with the compact ICSP pad layout to be delivered from the fab house, but have all confidence that it will perform as required.
I have found that heatshrink tubing over the part of the "key" to which the pogo pins are soldered, not only help to avoid shorts when accessing the pads in tight areas and mechanically strengthen the joints, it also covers up my shoddy soldering!!

Response from madworm | July 23, 2015

Good you got it working <phew>!

If you happen to be on twitter, I'd like to see your modifications. There's always room for improvement.

Mike | Dec. 3, 2014

Excellent product

Finally got around to using this last night and it is awesome! My project will all be smaller now with the help of this adapter.

Mike

Response from madworm | Dec. 10, 2014

Glad you like it so much :-)

One has to wonder how we've manged to live with the standard 3x2 pin header for so long. Especially so for tiny creations.

Robert | Sept. 18, 2014

Works as designed, great Idea!

Some tips on how to solder aligned would be great.

Response from madworm | Dec. 10, 2014

I promise to improve the description, once the latest revision boards are in!

Nicholas | Aug. 22, 2014

It's tiny - requires expert soldering skills

Words and pictures did not fully express how truly tiny this thing is. Although the pins are long, the space between them makes this like soldering closely packed 0603 SMD parts. Definitely not for the faint of heart. I deferred to an expert coworker to assemble mine. I've no doubt I would have made a hash of it.

At the time (and currently), an assembled version is not an option. I would have gladly paid US$20 more to buy an assembled one.

I haven't actually used it yet, as boards with the correct footprint have not come back from the fab yet, but I have experience with a full-size (.1") pogo ISP adapter, so I have no doubts that it will actually work as advertised. And being able to shrink the ISP footprint is worth it in the end.

Response from madworm | Aug. 25, 2014

Thank you for your feedback. I have adjusted the description, hopefully it's now more obvious one needs to be very good with the soldering iron. I'd like to offer assembled products, but there are some regulation issues that prevent that. And I can't get around them as of now.

Herve | May 29, 2014

Philip | April 13, 2014

Neat little tool!

I've used the adapter for a project, and I'm very pleased with it. Besides the smaller size, the change to SMD pads for 4 out of the 6 contacts also frees up space on the other layers.

Response from madworm | April 13, 2014

Good to hear it worked! Of course you can change the footprint as you need, as long as you keep at least 2 drilled holes. The more holes, the better the alignment will be.