For many of our development boards, sensors, and feathers featuring convenient stemma QT ports, construction of multiple-board projects is incredibly streamlined. An advantage of this design is the lack of need for a breadboard; our swirly grid design is an alternative solution for easy mounting of various small-sized microcontroller and sensor boards.
The grid is made out of an 'aluminum PCB' - we have that in quotes because while technically it is made with a PCB process for single-sided aluminum-core PCBs, there's no actual copper on here, its just the aluminum backing, and then black soldermask with silkscreen. The aluminum is conductive both electrically and thermally - so watch out if you are using metal screws to attach stuff. Unless, that is, you want to turn the whole thing into a ground plane in which case: go for it.
Each square is 0.6" x 0.6" and there's holes or slots every 0.2 inches. With the various dots and dashes you can pretty much make anything on a 0.1" grid fit. Each drill hole is 0.1" / 2.54mm diameter, the slots are 0.11" x 0.3" (2.75 x 7.5mm) And if that's not good enough, the aluminum is easy to cut/drill/machine/bend if you need more customization.
This one is 10x10 'blocks', so 6" x 6" in size or about 150x150mm
Technical Details
- 0.062" thick aluminum plate
- For 0.1" grid mounting projects
- 6" x 6" dimensions
- Wanna make your own?
Product Dimensions: 150.0mm x 150.0mm x 1.5mm / 5.9" x 5.9" x 0.1"
Product Weight: 54.6g / 1.9oz