Until now I’ve been using an old 44 pin hard drive cable for connecting my shield to my break away board.

Last night I discovered I needed to reverse the way it was attached, and I couldn’t get it to fit since there is a chip on one side. After butchering the connectors so it was only 10 wide, it worked, but the IDC connector is falling to pieces.

So I figured I should really just order some proper connectors rather than ghetto hacking it.

Thanks to the tip from the monome boards I ordered some from All Electronics.

RBBN CBL CONN 16 PIN FEMALE I ordered 10

20 CONDUCTOR RIBBON CABLE 10 feet

Total Cost: $15.50

Hopefully it’ll make the thing more securely wired once it’s all in a box and being moved about and beaten up.