 The great search part to you by Digikey. Thanks, Digikey. Every single week later, a user-powered engineer can help you, yes, you find things you want on digikey.com. Later, what are you looking for this week on digikey.com? So what I think they do is sometimes if I don't have a great search, I quickly just look on social media and be like, what are people looking for on Digikey? What did they find on Digikey that's kind of neat? To this person, Toy Builder, we don't follow what I should, they make all sorts of electronic projects. And this was kind of a neat one that they talked about. They're like, oh, this is a jumper cable that you can solder in or maybe you can even use with headers. That is ribbon cable with little crimps on it. And somebody was like, oh, where'd you get these? And they said, oh, I got them, did you key? And this was a total flashback because I used almost identical cables on the Zoxbox, the first project that we worked on, one of the first products from Adafruit. Let me see if I can find it on ribbon. It was just slightly different. I mean, it's similar. It's not flex cables. It's literally ribbon. And then it had these little stripped-ish ends on it. And you would pull these off and solder them in. And basically, there was two boards on the Zoxbox. There's the main board and the I-O board. Maybe it was the finishing section. So you would cut these ribbons and solder them between the two boards. And it would connect all the I-O. And at the time, this made sense to me because we're like, oh, well, you had point one inch header. And then this way, you could connect the two pieces easily. And we had to do all through-hole. That was the thing. If it was surface mount, I would have used FPC cables. But we were trying to do the whole thing only through-hole, just kind of nuts. So this was that ribbon or that ribbon cable. So I actually looked at it. I was like, well, is this even still sold at Digikey? And the answer is called Molex WMO9. I went to the website and it was like it is obsolete. It's not in stock anymore. It was available in every kind of length and configuration. But as I go, well, maybe we could get these ribbon cables, like this person said, oh, I got these from Digikey. If you do want to use something like this, let's find something similar. So since we don't want to get the ones that are not available, we'll do only active. And then we'll say normally stocking to get rid of it. So a lot of these are FPCs, which we don't want. We want this, where it's like cables that have connectors so that we can look at the termination style. So when you say top and bottom with backers, that's definitely FPC. That's like a flex connector that goes into a contact with little ears and you push them in. So you want completely exposed wires on both sides. And those are to solder in wires. And that'll get you a much smaller number of items. And you can see, OK, these are looking right. I don't see the Cript ones. But let's say we want one with like, well, we want 2.54 millimeters, so 0.1 inch pitch spacing. And let's say six conductors. And then we'll look at the lengths. Let's say three or four inches long. There's pretty much all the connectors that we had on the Zoxbox were about this length and size. So this is what we've got. So there's no data sheet. Wait, this is a data sheet. OK. So these are wire to wire. I don't really have a lot of documentation. They do have a whole family at least. So I'll say one thing, you know, I've used them and they're very inexpensive. This is one of the reasons we use them on the Zoxbox is these are, you know, it was based on the same price as having the individual wires. And it was like nice because they were ordered and like they had some flexibility and they, you know, you could, you didn't have to worry about like secondary connectors. The one thing I will say that was an issue with these to watch out for is, is that if you solder them in directly to your board, you do want to use hot glue where the connector touches the PCB because you're going to have this, you know, whenever you have a flexing area and you have a stiff contact near the flex. And this is why you saw on the FPCs they're like, oh, we have, you know, stiffener on the back is that's exactly that flex to rigid intersection, that joint, exactly where you're going to get breakages because you're going to have something that's moving and something that refuses to move. And that's where you're going to get like the force that causes it to eventually crack. So we did have an issue where if folks were working on their Zoxbox a lot and they're moving a lot of pieces and they weren't, you know, they went back and they did some work after the fact they would crack and break the contacts because they were flexing in a bunch. These weren't really meant to flex a lot. But they are like, again, if you're using only through-hole processes or you want to like, you know, you're reworking a board that already has 0.1 inch spacing this is kind of like the thing to use. The only other alternative is you solder in pin headers either right angle or straight and then you use like socket connectors but like those can actually get a little bit more expensive. I remember when we were pricing the Zoxbox this was definitely the least expensive way to make those contacts. And again, if you do it as the last step and there's not a lot of vibration, a lot of motion post installation, you're good to go. So this is my pick for the great search. 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