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Pogo-a-go-go Solderless GPIO Pogo Pins
Fit a pHAT to your Raspberry Pi Zero without soldering! These spring-loaded pogo pins provide a reliable electrical contact between your Pi Zero and pHAT, ma...
Fit a pHAT to your Raspberry Pi Zero without soldering! These spring-loaded pogo pins provide a reliable electrical contact between your Pi Zero and pHAT, making it quick and easy to swap boards between projects with no tools required.
Specially engineered to be just the right size for a solid connection, these pogo pins are a simple alternative to traditional soldered headers. Because they're non-permanent, you can easily move them between different projects.
Key Features
- Solderless Design – No soldering or special tools needed
- Spring-Loaded Pogo Pins – Reliable electrical contact between Pi Zero and pHAT
- Swappable – Easily move between projects without permanent connections
- Pin Length – ~9.5 mm extended, ~7 mm compressed
Installation
- Find the pins used by your pHAT at pinout.xyz
- Pop the four bolts through the Pi's mounting holes from below
- Slide on the four spacers
- Sit the pogo pins (short end down) in the appropriate GPIO holes
- Place the pHAT on top
- Secure with the four nuts
Package Contents
- 10× pogo GPIO pins
- 4× M2.5 × 12 mm white nylon bolts
- 4× M2.5 × 7 mm white nylon spacers
- 5× M2.5 white nylon nuts
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- GPIO
- General-purpose input/output pins are microcontroller pins you can set in software to read signals, switch devices on and off, or connect to peripherals. The number of GPIO pins matters because it limits how many buttons, LEDs, sensors, and other parts you can wire directly to the board.
- Headers
- Rows of metal pins used to plug a module into a breadboard or connect it with jumper wires. Pre-soldered headers make the module easier to use straight away without needing to solder the pins yourself.
- M2.5
- A metric screw thread size with a 2.5 mm nominal diameter. It matters for mounting because screws, standoffs, and holes must use the same size to fit securely without damaging the board.
- pHAT
- A smaller add-on board format for Raspberry Pi, similar in idea to a HAT but usually not full-sized. It matters because pHAT compatibility can affect how neatly a board stacks or fits into a Raspberry Pi project.
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