 The Great Search brought to you by DigiKey. And if you read every single week, Lady Adducer Power of Engineer and help you get to find the things you need, Lady Adducer. What is the Great Search of the Week? This week. And this actually by a request, somebody mailed in. Let's go to the overhead and I'll show what they were asking. So working on this project with the DSI displayed on the Raspberry Pi computer, and actually now a lot of single board computers because they've all cloned the Raspberry Pi. There are these connectors, the DSI, the display connector, and then the CSI camera interface. And one thing that definitely happens, even to me, I'm very careful, is the clip comes out of the connector. And then if the clip comes out, the retaining clip, you can't use it. And it's very often the little ear and the ear snaps and it like flies off the room and the cat grabs it or whatever or gets swept up. You don't want to throw away your beautiful Raspberry Pi just because it's got this clip. So let's find replacement connectors. And then we can always reuse the clips. You can gently remove them and replace them for the camera or display interface. They're both the same connector. So let's go to DigiKey. Oh, and I was showing earlier like there's cool weird square displays. Check out previous video if you have it. OK, so what we want is the same connector for the CSI or DSI. And those happen to be, and I know they are 15-pin, FPC, Flex, Print Circuit Board connector, Flexible connector. We don't want the assembly. We just want the connector itself. Yeah, that's right. It looks like this. I like that they added images. Sort of options. Actually, let's just go to the whole category. OK, so Contacts, I think. We want the one that has like 19,000 available. Let's see. Yeah, so this is now talking. Yeah, there's different configurations and pitches and pinouts. OK, so the first up, I always, because we want to actually be able to buy this, we're always going to go with the active and number positions, how many pins, 15. We don't want half-loaded. We want full 15, so we'll just pick 15. And then Pitch, for this, you have to note the pitches. You can use your handy calipers to measure the distance between the pins. There are standard sizes, but 99% of the time, it's going to be either 0.5 millimeter or 1 millimeter. Once in a while, there's others, but it's super-duper rare. If it's very close together, it's almost certainly 0.5. And if it's a little farther apart, it's 1. And if it's alternating, it's like sometimes 0.3. But this one in particular is going to be what? And then once in a while, it's 0.1 inch, like really fat. Those are old stuff. Next up, do we want surface mount or through hole? Well, on the Raspberry Pi, it's a surface mount connector. So you want surface mount. And also grab the dash, because it could be, there's some that aren't categorized. And let's also say only in stock, because we want to be able to purchase this today. So those are what we got so far. Whenever I have a couple dozen, that's when I start looking and I'm like, OK, what do we have? OK, these are starting to look good. One thing is that for the board I'm designing, I wanted a right angle so it sticks out to the side. But for the Raspberry Pi, if you want to replace the connector, it's a sticking up style, which is, and you can always see what you're like, oh, this is the style I want. And then look to see the mounting type. So that's surface mount, non-right angle. So let's go to surface mount, not right angle. OK, so only 10 options. So now we're really talking. So then you can see that there's still a lot of options. One thing is that some of these connectors, you see they don't have a retaining clip. You can see the retaining clip here and here. It's a little piece that you pull out, and then it kind of jams the cable in place. Make sure it doesn't pull out too easily, which, you know, depending on some designs, you want the cable to be able to pull out very easily so the cable doesn't get damaged and it's easy to insert. But in this particular case, we want it to have the retaining clip. So if we look, this is called a slide lock. So these two here are slide lock. It looks like it has a slide lock, but I guess it doesn't. So we're going to go with slide lock. OK, and now we're down to our three options. So there's the three options. And then what I do is actually just look at the connector. So let's go to the overhead real fast and we'll look at what the connector looks like. So it looks like it's kind of flat because we want to match the connector as much as possible. And it's got little ears that stick out the side over here. OK, so let's go back to the computer. So looking at these, you know, this one actually looks the closest. The coloring is also the same too, which by the way, sometimes, you know, you might not get the right color. The color doesn't matter. It's just like it to help you indicate which one you think it is, but it's got the little ear sticking out and it's definitely got. It doesn't have any like extra notches or anything. So I think that this is going to be the closest. And it's only 50 cents. So if you want to fix your Raspberry Pi, you know, I wouldn't necessarily place a whole order just for this connector. Let's say you have a bunch of them that you want to fix. You get 10 pack or if you're ordering stuff from DigiKey anyways, toss this in and then you'll have it for when your Raspberry Pi connector. If you pull it and you break it, you'll have these ready to go to repair it at that time. I always I have a couple of these always and I have to fix the one on my desk because I broke the clip. But this is my recommendation. So try it out. FFC 3820-15G from GCT. Good option, 50 cents. And that's the research.