 Every single week, Lydia is a power of engineering to find things on digikey.com, thanks Digikey. Lydia, what is a great search this week? Okay, so this week, I'm going to get to it. We're doing an ultra-slim microSD card, so let's go to the computer so I can show this thing again. So I want a microSD card slot that is not wide like this, but is because this is too wide to fit between these pads and it interferes. I need something that's less than 12 millimeters wide. So let's go to the overhead and I'll show how wide these things are to be wide. Okay, so this is 14 millimeters wide, which is, like I said, way too wide. Now ironically, on the Pico W or the Pico, this would fit because I'm not using these, don't use SMT headers, use through-haul headers, but on my accessories, I want to use SMT headers, so the pads come out to the side. And so that won't fit, and this barely fits even here. So one thing I did think I was like, oh, you know, I looked at the teensy, which I had one hanging around, and this one actually is like almost exactly 12 millimeters. So I knew that this was possible to find something that would fit perfectly in between those pads. I just need to use my didgeridoo search capabilities. So one thing to just note for is that this is not a push-pull. What you get when you get that extra width is there's the spring here, and the spring is what lets you do the push-push ability to, you know, you push it in. And then, you know, when you do this, it like flies out and across the room. And then this is push and pull type. So, you know, there's trade-offs. You know, the Raspberry Pi computers also changed. They were push-push, and then I think, you know, that was the spring can break. It's not really meant for, you know, infinite insertion removals. This one, you know, it's not as like elegant because you have to yank it, but it's skinnier and you don't have the spring that can break. So let's go to my computer. And so we did actually cover the SD card holder in a previous great search. You can see it here, like this is this part. I use it everywhere, and it's wonderful, and it's great. But again, it's a little bit too wide. So what I want to do is I want to find an alternative, something that does very similar stuff. And you can see this lovely rendering. There's lots of these in stock, which is great. I want something that's, again, a little skinnier. And one thing to note is that the size is not documented. It's not a searchable element, which happens sometimes, especially for some connectors. You don't get dimensions as a searchable thing. So what you have to do is just look at them and then check the datasheet and just read each one until you find the one. Or, you know, you do what I did. You find a board that has the part and you're like, okay, I know that this exists. I just need something that looks like that. So let's look for a active microSD holder. And let's view similar. So already we got a couple options. So this is the hinge type. These are very slim, but I don't, this is not a good board for it because I want people to be able to remove the card from the side. These hinge ones are really good when you have the SD card in the middle of your PCB. So you want to be able to like flip it out, you know, remove it and you don't have to have an edge. Whereas the SD card, you know, the card holders I'm looking at, they need to be on the edge because you can, you know, there's nothing in the way you can pull the card out. So I do want to remove hinged lids. So I'm going to select everything but hinged and then apply that to get rid of like the 12 that don't have it. Okay, so now we've got a couple options. So, you know, the first one, first one we've got here is, you know, what I've got already, it's got the spring. This one, I've actually seen this before. I saw this on a, they're ultra, ultra tiny and like just like the ends go in. It's like, it's kind of weird. One thing that is nice is it's high up above the board and so a lot of people use this. You can't put it in the middle of the board because often it'll float above any like resistors or maybe slim capacitors or even a chip. And because it's not, the SD card doesn't go up against the PCB. It's actually kind of levitated. The only thing that's weird about this is I don't like that the SD is like it's really exposed because only the contacts are connected. So I've seen this board used as this connector. It is by far like the most compact, you know, simplest SD card holder but there's no mechanical strength to it in my opinion. So the next one is, we've got these Amphenol parts. So this one has a spring. So I think we can't use this one. This one looks like it's very similar to this lady. So let's look over here in the specs. So this one, let's scroll down. We can see the dimensionals. They don't have dimensional specifications. Why would they add that? This must be an incomplete data sheet. Okay, well, that's not very helpful. Let's try this one. Okay, this is much better. So I love it when the data sheets are scans of like documents. So this one, I think this is actually the same part that's on the teensy because this is 11.95 millimeters. So it's like it's again very, very narrow. So this is like the one I think I'm going to go with. However, there's a couple other possible options. Let's look at this one. Maybe this one has. Yeah, this one has. Also, this is 11.95 millimeters. One thing I do like is it has a switch on it. I like my SD card. Most SD card slots these days do have a switch. It lets you know that the card is inserted or removed. So before you perform any SD card communication, you can check to make sure that the card is in place. You don't end up hanging on like waiting for data to respond. Nothing. I don't think this really works. But like if you are writing data to an SD card, you can kind of detect right when it's about to be removed. And like you might be able to flush the data really quickly. Although I don't know how fast you can do that before the contacts lose connection. But these are all really good options. So let me just look for ones that are in stock. And then let me look for pricing. Let me make sure the pricing at 5,000 pieces good. So yeah, these are cheaper for sure. And you can see even the thickness of the plastic at the bottom there that levitates it. And there's a couple options of these super skinny ones. This one's very cheap. This one has that spring. So it's going to be too wide. This is a flip top actually, which shouldn't have made it into the search, but it did. So the one that is the least expensive, it's basically a dollar at the 5,000 piece mark is this Amphenol. So this is what I'm going to probably go with. It looks like the part on the teensy doesn't say Amphenol. So I think this is a generic layout component. Probably Amphenol first came out with it. And then other people made variations that are very similar. I'm going to try this. I think this is a pretty standard part. So I should be able to get. I don't like to get connectors that are only available for one supplier. So I'm going to first make sure that this pin out and pad, like the push pull SD card is available for multiple places. And then I'll try it out. But the good news is that, you know, once I lay out the pins, it'll work with all the code exactly the same because the contacts are exactly the same. So this is my, my great search pick. That's a great search.