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December 28, 2011
by Matthew
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I have seen ribbon connectors in some of the pictures on the website that connect the LCD and the breadboard together. Where can I get those?

December 28, 2011
by Rick_S
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If you saw it in a picture on these forums, they are homemade cables.

December 28, 2011
by missle3944
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Matthew,

I hand soldered mine together. I first ripped a pin connector off a old floppy disk drive and I soldered the end to an old ribbon cable. Then I took a broken HDD ide connector and soldered the other end to it. And just plugged it into the LCD screen. Took a while but it is much faster for debugging and such for experiments.

-Dan

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