 Every single lake lady user power of engineering to find things on the digikey site. We called this to great search Thanks, digikey for making this happen leader. What is the great search this week? Okay, so this week I was just showing off a project I was building. It's a joystick adapter for retro PC joysticks like the ones that would have a fight 15 Pin connector that would plug into the back of your 46 DX And you would be able to play Commander Keen with a joystick when with your sound blaster 16 sound card and joystick port Isakard, but there's a lot of people want to use these retro adapters So I thought which are joysticks. So I thought I'd make a little adapter But to connect to the joysticks you need a DE 15 connector. So let's show what that is First off my schematic It's a two pin two row 15 pin connector. It's a D sub stop connector and then This is the pin out I was just showing and this is a project that has a similar Connector so you can see it's this big D sub here and I want something very similar. I want it to be a right angle connector I want to be through hole and if you look closely I Also want to have these like I don't know what they're called like we're tension screws They're like these little standoffs that are 440 size screws And then this particular joystick that's plugged in doesn't have it but a lot of joysticks have a little Like thumb screws that you would use to mechanically like permanent patch it And this is a friction fit and it will friction fit just fine But I think I'd like to have those little added standoffs Just for mechanical security if you do want to have something that doesn't doesn't tear off. So let's So now that we know what I'm looking for it's a D sub DE connector and I want female I want it to be because this is the plug part and this is the socket part. So I want the socket part So let's go to digikey and we're gonna search for a D sub connector so one thing that's fun is that I have the beta which is a New a new thing I've had the beta on for a bit, but it's actually like as of this week it changed over So if you're logged in do click try the beta if you want to try this out because now what's really neat is like they have pictures of The products and the interface is a little bit smoother and easier to use So one thing that I like is before like there would be a list. I'd be like which one do I want? Now I can see I want this one the D sub connector. I don't want the back shells and hoods I don't want all these accessories. These are all the cables. I definitely want just This fella, okay, so now, you know, you can look they could see the the interface a little bit rounder And there's like kind of drop shadows So yeah, there's a bunch of different options here. So the first off I want to specify Well, first of I always like to specify active So I'm only looking at what is currently available and the number of positions. I'm gonna use the filter I only want 15. There's like sometimes there's whoa 152. That's a huge D sub I only want 15. I think these are like stacked once I'm gonna get like choose. It's like 9 and 15 But I only want 15 So let's apply that'll cut down from 150,000 down to 11,000 another thing to watch out for with D said 15 and higher numbers is there's also a VGA Standard which I don't know if I'll be able to find it. There's a VGA port that uses 15 Pins which is three rows of five, but we want two rows of seven and eight. So we do have to specify Churros and I want remember I need sockets. I need the receptacle which was with female sockets on it So let's let's Cut that down So yeah, so this is basically what I want, but I want the thru-hole version something like this So let's look for right angle thru-hole They go so Let's see. I want Right angle thru-hole. There's a couple of like this is SMT thru-hole select that anyways and then Not board edge. Yeah. Okay, so let's look at these Okay, cool. Yeah, now it's now we're talking. Okay, so this is what I want So you're seeing the images are starting to be and here's actually something cool about D sub connectors Because I've just had to source these over, you know the decades The pin out that the mechanical connection is like really standardized Not this is not like USB connectors where I've noticed like just because something is a micro B USB connector or type C It does not mean it's going to be Pin compatible or socket compatible or hole compatible with these subs I found that 99% of the time like these are all Going to be even from different suppliers like this is Amphilite or You know WR or whatever. They're all worth electronics or TE. They're all going to be pin compatible So you just have to choose what like finish you want and whether you want like all the extras so I'm gonna actually just go for stuff that's in stock and Not marketplace because there's a lot of options Thanks Everyone wants to be to search for stuff for them. Yes, okay, so next up I do want Let me see. There's so much going on here. Well, I do want to Whatever I won't go house They're all going to be a house and then I want to search my price and then what I'm actually gonna do is I'm going to just like mouse over to find the cheapest one that does what I want So this is this is like the correct type of connector, but you notice it doesn't have those standoff thingies So I'm gonna just keep going down Until I get to this one. So here I finally found one that has the Standoff connectors and again, you know, definitely check the datasheet, but Anything that's this shape and pin out is going to be compatible And then you can see from the 3d view It's got like the the mounting tabs. It's got the screw holes, and it's got the socket connector And it's a pretty good price. I mean like in quantity gets to be about a dollar So check this out. This is the a df-15 a kg t2s Lots of them in stock and this will fit perfectly in the standard Pin-out shape that I've got here for my joystick connector And that's great church