Making Cables with Pololu Crimper

When you first get into electronics, you buy the prestripped jumper wires. Then, you buy the jumper wires (perhaps in a variety of lengths) or maybe a spool of solid-core wire. Eventually, you get to the point when you want your cables of a certain length, color, perhaps even grouped together in a connector a certain way.

This can be done with a crimping tools, pins, and some wire. Not only that, it's cheaper in the long run to make your own cables. I've owned the Pololu crimping tool for quite some time but I never could get it to work. More to the point, I didn't know how to use it. The website had two pictures and that's it. No instructions came with the it. I made a video that will hopefully save someone from the same frustrations.

Things needed:
Pololu Crimper
Wire Strippers (Can be found at Radio Shack, Fry's, hardware stores, etc.)
~22AWG Wire (Solid core or stranded will do)
Female Pins and/or Male pins
Plastic Housings

Funny enough, I returned to the website today to find that they posted a video a month ago. For me, that's 11 months too late.

Raspberry Pi in NES Case

I have a Raspberry Pi acting as my media player to my TV. Seeing that I needed (or rather wanted) a case for it and I had 2 broken NES just lying around, I decided to give it a new home.

I was going to get panel-mounted connections for the ethernet and HDMI but those connectors alone would've easily been $10. I can't claim complete credit, I saw a video on YouTube where the guy essentially put the Pi in the back, right-hand corner and connected up to the Pi. Good enough for me.