 Well, a great search brought to you by Digikey and Ada for every single week we have Lady Ada show you how to find things on digikey.com. Lady Ada, take it away. Okay. I'm designing a bunch of Trinkie boards. Let me show those. Trinkie. Trinkie. Trinkie boards. These Trinkie boards have a USB-A PCB connector that plugs into a port. And they are just very low cost and designed to give you a little bit of capability using, you know, a SAMD 21 or an RP2040 chip. Here's like a, you know, kind of a more advanced Trinkie. Then we had a couple of people ask, hey, can you make a version with a USB-C connector? Now, you can't because USB-C is double-sided and it's also a very fine pitch. You can't really make a PCB that slots. I mean, like, you technically could but it would not last very long. I think the traces would come off pretty quickly. So you can't do this hack where you just have a really thick PCB and these pads. Instead, you have to have a connector. So what I want though is not a USB-A connector. We have a lot of boards that have USB-A. What I want, sorry, USB-C socket, what I want is a USB-C plug. So go to the overhead. Again, I'll show this real fast. So this is a USB-C plug, right? It matches one of these cables. It's a plug that can solder onto the PCB. But the thing about this is that it's like this straddle mount. I was just talking about this where all the pins are soldered onto each side. And so this looks like a very time-consuming process because I think you have to apply solder paste to both sides and you have to slot it exactly has to fit perfectly in and align. And there's like, you know, like no, you know, they're very fine pitch parts. And there's no through-hole component that goes through the PCB. And so this is like, in my opinion, a little wiggly. You can see this is wiggling. I don't know. It's like a little loose tooth. I think it'll be okay. But I think it'll eventually break off. And so what I want is to find a component on Digi-Key that'll let me turn my Trinky, which I just had in my hand. Here you go. Trinky. And instead of having USB-C socket, like these are, you know, a dime a dozen, we've covered these on the great search. I want the opposite. We're a little bit of through-hole connectivity if possible. Surface mount, but also through-hole the way the sockets are so that we can pick and place them. But the components are, you know, the components that need hand placement like this straddle mount. Okay, so let's go to the computer. Now we know what we want. So let's go to Digi-Key and let's type in USB connector because that's what we want. So we definitely want USB connector assembly. And they have, you know, 4,000, all sorts of things. A lot of micro-B type A, HDMI, whatever, also like this part that goes onto a cable. So let's first... Sorry, stuff on my desk. Let's only look for active. And we want it to be a plug. But I'm also going to grab this dash in case there's something that didn't get categorized properly. And I want it to be... See, oh, not everything is selectable. So now USB type C. There you go. Let's apply. Alright, so I'm only 62. And then I think I'm also going to search for normally stocking because I want to get something that you can actually buy. So there are like a couple of mounting types, but I think the thing is that for something like this, I really want to see the photo and I look at the data sheet because it's like surface mount might include that straddle mount, although they do say, you know, straddle mount here, but maybe do I want a board edge surface mount? I don't know. So let's look and then let's just sort by price to start because who knows. So this one is kind of cool. Looks like a power connector, but it plugs on the tops. This is for like something would... We can't call it be a right angle PCB. Ditto. This one is a right angle connector. This one looks like a straddle mount. So let's take a look at this. I don't see if they have the data sheet. They might not, but it's pretty clearly a straddle mount. You can see the little legs, the teens here that they grabs onto the PCB. And then yeah, this is bulk. So this is the fact that the packaging is bulk means that it has to be placed by hand. It doesn't come on a pick and place tape and wheel. This is also straddle mount. This one is very clearly straddle mount because you can actually even see the two layers of pens. I don't want that. This one is like a weird photo, you know, but let's look at what it looks like in person. Also, straddle mount. Really common, I don't know. I guess it was like mass manufacturing. Maybe I'd go with that. This one. Let's look at the 360. Hold on, it's loading. Okay, yeah, this is also a straddle mount. You can see the two rows of pens. Boo! Straddle mount. This is also a straddle mount. This one is not, actually. This is like the first one that is not a straddle mount. But it's actually going to be, yeah, I don't have the proper full data sheet. Let's see if maybe I can get another data sheet. No. Let's see if we can look at the EDA model. This one is actually possible because it has all the surface mount pens when they go on the top and then it has two through-hole slots. This one would actually be okay. This one is a little bit... Yeah, here you go. You can actually see here's the slot and then there's the two surface mount rows. Only thing is I don't need two rows and I'm going to keep looking. This one did out. This one is actually kind of similar to the other one. There's two rows of surface mount and then there's a slot. This one actually would be pretty good. This one's vertical. That's not going to work. This is a socket. Don't know why this is in here. Another straddle mount. Another straddle mount. These are really good photos of the straddle mount though. Vertical. Another vertical. Straddle mount and vertical. There's like a billion. This one's interesting because it's half surface mount and half through-hole. It actually probably would be okay to use. This is the footprint. You see it's actually the full of the pens, the USB 3 pins. One row of surface mount and then the rest are through-hole. This is going to be very mechanically solid. If I try other stuff and it doesn't work, this for sure is not going anywhere. All those through-hole connectors plus the slots is going to be super great. This is another two slot version. Vertical. Let's look at this. Eventually I'm going to bump into the one I did pick in the end. This is the first one that I was like, actually this is what I want. Because you can kind of see on the footprint, there's only one row because I don't need USB 3. I don't need all the pens. I just want the data power and ground. And then like a CC pin. And then it's got two slots. It's got a little bit of a ground pad to give it a little bit more mechanical connection. But the two slots I think make it like a good winner. You can see the slots that go through the PCB. And the PCB actually butts up here. You see this is the edge of the PCB. So it jams up against the PCB and then it has this through-hole. So like together that keeps it from, if you make the PCB cut exactly at the right length, it means it doesn't wedge too much. And it doesn't torque too much. So this is the one I'm actually going to end up using. And I'll just quickly show the USB type-C plug breakout that I designed with this component. So I'm going to find out if this is going to be a good footprint. That's the thing I have to figure out next. But this is the USB-C like plug. I think this is the correct length. These are all those pads. And then these are the socket. And then the milling layer. Let's see if I can put that front because it's interesting. Let me hide the pads. There you go. You can see this is the milling layer. That's where the slot is going to be cut out, the plated slot. And then there's a little bit of like this ground pad here just for good locks and we can get a little more mechanical connection. And then these pads and then ideally you know this PCB edge again butts up against the connector and gives me that extra mechanical strength. So hopefully this will work. I really want something nice and strong so that people you know don't yank, pull, twist. I'll report back if this works. Hopefully my PCBs will show up soon. I'll solder this connector on and I'll let you know. This is my pick for the great search. That's a great search.