I intend to use wire wrapping for a project involving an Arduino, and a Time of Flight sensor (https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-vl6180x-time-of-flight-micro-lidar-distance-sensor-breakout/overview).
The sensor comes on a separate, headerless board, and the recommended approach is to solder a header to the board. I would like to avoid soldering a header, if possible.
My current thought would be to use a long pinned wire wrapping header, from underneath the breakout board, and wire wrap to it, but I am unsure if this approach will work correctly (I do not have the supplies to test it currently).
Is there recommended, non-soldering approach to attaching a headerless breakout board, using wire wrapping?
Best Answer
As I understand your question you are not opposed to using some kind of header pins, you just don't want to solder them to the breakout board. It's difficult to get a good connection between the pin and the board without soldering, but a press fit pin might work for you. The pin shown below is from Vero Technologies. You can wrap on both the top and bottom of the pin. The pin must very tightly in a plated-through hole, and I used to have a spring-loaded tool that would insert them.