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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 18:54:59 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   Damn. I won't be able to fit all these PJ325 female 3.5 mm connectors into the case I bought; not if they're sitting in a row anyway. What I need is those vertically stacked 3.5 mm jacks they use on motherboards, but I don't know what they're called.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 19:02:11 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      I *could* also use PCB mounted 3.5 mm jacks that point straight up, but this would require the final device to have a total of 3 PCBs (front board, main board and rear board), together with 8 standoffs, screws and nuts, 4 IDC connectors and 2 ribbon cables. I mean, it would certainly be neat in terms of being more or less as advanced as an electronics product straight off a production line.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 19:05:13 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         It would be the kind of thing where, if a hardware hacker took it apart, it would require a bit of effort to reverse engineer it because nets are going onto other boards via connectors and such, and disassembly is no longer trivial because everything is stacked, sandwiched and interconnected.

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Oct-2018 19:08:06 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            My only issue with this project is that it has taken months to develop, and I'm most certainly not going to be turning any sort of profit on it, if the hours that went into it are added up. The concept is simple, but the implementation is not. I'm not making a simple board that sits naked on some rubber pads. I'm basically designing a shrink-wrapped sort of product that wouldn't stand out as particularly amateurish in an electronics store.