“Stiff material does was it's supposed to. Cleaner surface solution for temporary connections or relocation of add-on boards with 40pin cables. Requires soldering.”
“This is identical to the socket on the cobbler, and the ribbon included in that set has a key or "tooth" on both ends, using a socket such as this on a Pi will prevent you from ever connecting the Cobbler backwards (which could damage your Pi depending on whats connected to the Cobbler)
Unfortunately, as it ships, it does not fit a Zero without any modifications. A few minutes with a file, dremel or sharp knife can change that though. A Capacitor, choke/inductor, PCB Pad and the MicroSD Socket interfere with the shroud on this header, but removing small sections of plastic will allow it to fit. I soldered this onto my Zero and its great, for people wanting to use a Zero with a Cobbler, another idea is to get a 2x20 female and solder it so that the header is facing downwards, in this configuration you can simply "dock" the Zero into the Cobbler.
Weirdly, this item is cheaper than is 2x13 (Pi gen 1) counterpart. At the low low price, definitely can't hurt even if it doesn't get used. High Quality plastic, thick, durable and the pins are friction fit very strongly, they won't slide easily.”
“Okay, this is 65p (when I bought it in November 2015) and is pretty straight forward. I wanted to use this to connect to the Qubit Raspberry Pi screen and case (a 1024 x 600 IPS screen enclosed a laser cut, layered case with a driver board) as it has a ribbon cable integrated with the case, but with female connectors. My plan was to use this, in combination with Adafruit's Pi T-Cobbler Plus so I could do some tinkering, but instead of removing the integrated cable from the Qubit case - so I would connect this to the case and then the cobbler to this.
Only downside is that whilst this would work, the underside pins are just a few millimeters too short so they do not stay seated in the ribbon cable. Not a disaster as I can still use this with my solderless breadboard, but didn't work as I had planned.
My fault really, but lesson learned.
But hey, it's 65p!”
