ok I will bite. A couple of things spring to mind:
1. how many connections do you actually need to make?
2. Assuming that if you could by magic put a male connector on the bottom of the pi, that all the connections would be in the right place, Then you might consider buying one of these, or similar:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pico ... 4144542154
Then buy 2 stacking headers and plug the first one into the socket on your board, and the second into the top of that.
buy 2 male headers and solder them into the bottom of the hat-hacker.
Put the hat-hacker on top of the pi gpio so it overhangs, and put the other male header into the top of the stackable header from your board. Careful to line it up properly.
Without pictures/dimensions its not clear whether it would work mechanically but if you don't want to use a cable.....
There is a hat-hacker variant with 3 sets of holes that would give you more horizontal offset if you need it.
You would need to support the other side of the pi. Total cost about £10 and 80 pins to solder. Big plus is that all the soldering is limited to bits costing a few pounds and leaves your board and the pi untouched.
I believe the pin to pin layout would be preserved by doing this but confirm it for yourself before buying stuff etc. Apologies if I got it wrong!
1. how many connections do you actually need to make?
2. Assuming that if you could by magic put a male connector on the bottom of the pi, that all the connections would be in the right place, Then you might consider buying one of these, or similar:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pico ... 4144542154
Then buy 2 stacking headers and plug the first one into the socket on your board, and the second into the top of that.
buy 2 male headers and solder them into the bottom of the hat-hacker.
Put the hat-hacker on top of the pi gpio so it overhangs, and put the other male header into the top of the stackable header from your board. Careful to line it up properly.
Without pictures/dimensions its not clear whether it would work mechanically but if you don't want to use a cable.....
There is a hat-hacker variant with 3 sets of holes that would give you more horizontal offset if you need it.
You would need to support the other side of the pi. Total cost about £10 and 80 pins to solder. Big plus is that all the soldering is limited to bits costing a few pounds and leaves your board and the pi untouched.
I believe the pin to pin layout would be preserved by doing this but confirm it for yourself before buying stuff etc. Apologies if I got it wrong!
Statistics: Posted by Pi5_User — Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:36 pm