USB Coil Cable

Step 5 Testing

For this Instructable I chose a regular to square USB connection, which I normally use to connect my Arduino board to my laptop. I don't have any super short USB cables, so the long USB cable always gets in the way and has pushed my Arduino board off the table many times.
Maybe this short coil cable will solve the problem.

I plugged it in and was able to program the chip. You can see that it is connected because the green LED on the board is lit up.

The last and missing step would involve finding a good way to relieve all the strain from the solder connections, since I forgot to add that big pieces of shrink tubing and am too lazy to re-do it all.

Comments

[AbuseArt]

This place between black and white cord is too weak. You used isolation but those little cables are not reliable. Especially when its between two fat cables. You should cover them with another pipe.(hard to do if you dont have usb plugs from electronics shop)  ... otherwise, it won't do... 

[11richie21]

how do you know which colors go to what? also does it work with two different usb cables?

[Plusea]

when you cut both the usb cable and the telephone cable you have a range of different colours and you just want to make sure that the telephone cable connects the same colours of the usb cable back together again. if you use two different usb cables then you have to figure out what colour cable is going to which pin of the usb plug so that you can figure out what should go to what >>
http://tuxgraphics.org/common/images2/article07052/usb_a.gif
make sense?

[11richie21]

thanks! =)