[NTLK] The (unfinished) story of the Interconnect Port plug

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On 10/30/2021 8:09 PM, Jeff Sheldon wrote:
> Matthias,
> 
> One experiment I had started on, but didn’t finish:
> 
> Can properly thick PCBs with traces of 1mm be sided for the top and bottom of the interconnect port and bridged?  I had intended to make these as super-low-cost just-good-enough interconnects for interfacing with various adaptors (eg. USB) and break-out options.

Hi Jeff.

Not sure if that would work. It's likely that the plug has the "springy" 
side of the connectors. The builtin connector has a very thin middle bar 
and probably just flat contact surfaces.

But I have not disassembled one to verify.

Matthias