Convert straight headers to right angled headers (in a pinch)

After seeing the announcement for the arduino contest, I said, hey why not try.

So I kinda cheaped  out and got the barebones arduino kit, with the intent of "making it my way". One of those changes was one of the first things you see on the instructions, insert a higher rated voltage regulator.

http://moderndevice.com/Docs/BBB_RevE_Instructions03.pdf

And (not mentioned) to make the most of this change you really need some form of a heatsink on the regulator. Even a bad heatsink is better than none, and in order to fit into the tight spacing, one of those really cheap, sheet metal stamped into a U shaped, heatsinks was used.


Dry fitting the parts on the kit's pcb showed a snafu, theres a 3 pin header that selects external power or usb power, and while everything clears, the heatsink makes the header vanish, and its next to impossible to grab the jumper, as it darn near touches the heatsink.

No big deal I will just grab a right angle header, .... what? im ... OUT?!? Okay now what...

Step 1 What you need

What you need

Straight headers and a need to turn them in to right angle ones
Scrap of protoboard
Needle nose pliers

Comments

[ninjanody]

nice.. i had tried that already cause i need some angled headers and i had only straight..

[xtremd]

 Two more cents added to my brain's emergency fund. Nice Instructable!