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I am trying to control LCD ADM2004D with ATMega32 AVR microcontroller. This type of LCD is 20×4 character, has 16 input and I am going to connect the main board to this LCD. I may need to disconnect it from the board sometimes. What is the best way of connection, in term of wires and male/female sockets.
I am thinking about ribbon cable. But there are so many types of cable and I am not familiar with their name. I look for something neat although I know everywire does the job.
I would solder the wires together and then use heatshrink tubing to cover the joint and help make things look neat and tidy.
Not sure how much you know, so I'll just keep going...
Solder is made to join electrical contacts, and it makes a durable bond. You need a soldering iron to heat solder. The basic approach is to hold the iron on the two (or more) wires to join, then apply solder to the heated joint. The solder will melt quickly and harden even faster after you take the iron off. That's a super basic description, and there's a ton of soldering tutorials around the web you can look to if you need help.
Heatshrink sounds like what you want if electric tape is "too messy". You basically cover the joined wires with it, then use hot air (via hot-air rework station, or just a hair drier) to shrink the tubing around the wires.
This wasn't too hard too find. I am sure there are more.
searched ... 20-pin J-Link connector 8-pin 2x4
This adapter is designed to allow standard 20-pin ARM JTAG devices to connect to the FDI 10-pin mini-JTAG on µEZGUI units and ARM based SOMDIMM units.
with 100k Pullup to SWDIO and 100k Pulldown to SWCLK
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look for 0.1" pin headers on ebay, they can be easily cut to size using a pair of wire cutters or snips pin header pairs on ebay