These would probably work.  I have used the 5-pin version.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/JST-1-25mm-Pitch-Mini-3-Pin-Female-Connector-wire-15cm-Male-Vertical-Header-x-10/112284345603?hash=item1a24ab2503:g:Z8kAAOSwm8VUzafk

Charlie

> On Jan 19, 2021, at 8:21 PM, Bryan Duke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If anyone can find some 0.05” press fit headers, that’d be perfect. Smaller 
> versions of these:
> https://microcontrollershop.com/product_info.php?products_id=6552&osCsid=anp1cig2mlkv4j9083l85tpv41
>  
> <https://microcontrollershop.com/product_info.php?products_id=6552&osCsid=anp1cig2mlkv4j9083l85tpv41>
> 
> I heard Digikey stocks similar header pins, but I haven’t been able to find 
> them yet.
> 
> -Bryan
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Bdale Garbee <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Chris Brown <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
>> 
>>> I would be interested in connecting with USB.  Can you please ask Keith to
>>> provide the details?
>> 
>> Keith and I just talked this through.  Conceptually, it's easy.  In
>> practice, it's really fiddly, because what you have to play with are 3
>> small holes in the board on 0.050 inch centers.
>> 
>> I'm going to CC our mailing list on this reply so this becomes more
>> general knowledge.  The question for those seeing this for the first
>> time, is how to use USB to configure a TeleMini v3.0 board?
>> 
>> Leaving the micro USB connector off is one of the ways we made TeleMini
>> fit in an 18mm tube.  But the main system on chip has USB available
>> still, so when he laid out the board, Keith brought the required pins
>> out, thinking it might be helpful in debugging or something, and our
>> software should know what to do if it sees a TeleMini show up on USB.
>> 
>> On one edge of the board (see attached photo), there are 6 holes in a
>> row, one of which has a square pad, though you really have to squint at
>> it to see which pad that is.  It's the third pad in from one end, and
>> has 2 round holes on one side and 3 on the other.  The side with two is
>> what you care about... they are the USB plus and minus data lines.  3
>> connections will do it, GND / D+ / D-.
>> 
>> To actually connect to these holes, the quickest hack is probably to
>> take some existing USB A to mini or micro B cable, cut the B connector
>> off, then carefully strip the outer jacket, strip the conductors, twist
>> and tin their stranded leads, and just stick them into the appropriate
>> holes.  Note that the usual color code for such cables is black for
>> ground, red for 5V (avoid like the plague getting that near our
>> boards!), green and white for the data lines.  On the cables we buy for
>> TeleDongle, et al, green is D+ and white is D-, but sadly not everyone
>> seems to get that right who sells cheap cables.  I've never seen anyone
>> mess up the red and black wires.  Fortunately, if you get the data lines
>> reversed, it won't hurt anything, it just won't work. 
>> 
>> It's going to be a bit of a challenge to keep everything making contact
>> long enough to talk to the board.  You might consider finding some
>> 50-mil pitch header pins to solder the wires to so you have a single
>> thing you're putting in and out of the holes.  Or maybe some micro
>> grabbers on each wire?  If you come up with some great solution, please
>> let me know.
>> 
>> In any case, once you have the USB port wired up, with a battery and
>> power switch hooked up to the board it should show up as a USB device on
>> your computer and you should be able to use altosui to configure it just
>> like any of our other products.
>> 
>> Have fun!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Bdale
>> 
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