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2010-10-18
How to make dirt-cheap interconnects
There are loads of DIY cable recipes on the net. You can go to all kinds of lengths in making your own cables, searching for and purchasing ever-more exotic combinations of conductor, dielectric, shielding, and connectors. But, to start with, something that’s easy to make and cheap (since you’ll probably make some mistakes initially) is needed. So here’s a little tutorial on how to make a really simple, dirt-cheap interconnect from easily-available materials. The interconnect I’m going to show here is quite short – around 25 cm. I never understood why the standard length for interconnects is a meter. Most of the time, the outputRead More →