{"id":17474,"date":"2023-12-01T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17474"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:58:14","slug":"the-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/01\/the-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026 is a thing to help soldering <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DIN_connector\">DIN connector<\/a>s. I had some made at JLCPCB, and will have them for sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpug.ca\/world-of-commodore\/world-of-commodore-2023\/\">World of Commodore<\/a> tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato1.jpg\" alt=\"a rectangular green circuit board with markings for various DIN connectors, and holes for the connector pins to fin through. One of the sets of holes is filled by a 7-pin 270\u00b0 DIN connector, ready for soldering.\n\nThere are various pinouts for retrocomputers on the board. There is also the slogan THE POTATO, with a smiling cartoon potato next to it\" class=\"wp-image-17475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato1.jpg 656w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato1-320x285.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato1-160x142.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sven Petersen&#8217;s \u201cThe Potato\u201d &#8211; front. DIN7 connector <em>not<\/em> included<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"856\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato2.jpg\" alt=\"a rectangular green circuit board with markings for various DIN connectors, and holes for the connector pins to fin through. One of the sets of holes is filled by a 7-pin 270\u00b0 DIN connector, ready for soldering.\n\nThere are various pinouts for retrocomputers on the board. There is also the slogan DE KANT\u00dcFFEL, with a smiling cartoon potato next to it\" class=\"wp-image-17476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato2.jpg 856w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato2-320x290.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato2-160x145.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/potato2-768x696.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sven Petersen&#8217;s \u201cThe Potato\u201d &#8211; back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can get the source from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/svenpetersen1965\/DIN-connector_soldering-aid-The-Potato\">svenpetersen1965\/DIN-connector_soldering-aid-The-Potato<\/a>. I had the file <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/svenpetersen1965\/DIN-connector_soldering-aid-The-Potato\/blob\/main\/Rev.%200\/Gerber\/gerber_The_Potato_noFrame_v0a.zip\">Rev. 0\/Gerber \/gerber_The_Potato_noFrame_v0a.zip<\/a> made, and it seems to fit connector pins well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each Potato is made up of two PCBs, spaced apart by a nylon washer and held together by M3 nylon screws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 is a thing to help soldering DIN connectors. I had some made at JLCPCB, and will have them for sale at World of Commodore tomorrow. You can get the source from svenpetersen1965\/DIN-connector_soldering-aid-The-Potato. I had the file Rev. 0\/Gerber \/gerber_The_Potato_noFrame_v0a.zip made, and it seems to fit connector pins well. Each Potato is made up of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3315,2],"tags":[3330,3331,2556,2995],"class_list":["post-17474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-din","tag-pcb","tag-retrocomputing","tag-soldering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17474\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}