Custom Wire Connectors

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Custom Wire Connectors

Make your Arduino prototype projects more professional looking, organized, and more solid.

Bits and Pieces

  • The DuPont rainbow wire commonly comes in 40pin strips and I recommend sticking to the female ends when customizing. (With or without housing.)
  • Various preferred sizes of housing connectors.
  • Optional: Long Male Header Pins ;-)

Remove the Housing

Remove the housing by gently sticking a pin under the plastic tab located on one side of the end of the female connector's housing, either from a male wire or the 2.54mm header pin.

- the trick is to push the wire into the housing so that you can get under the plastic tab

Pictures will make this clearer.

Customized Wire Harness

Following your wire diagrams you can make customized wire harnesses.

In the example pictures I made custom wire-harnesses for connecting the nRF24L01 Wireless Transceiver module to the Arduino Pro Mini.

Garden Controller System using this customized wiring.