I was working on a project of mine (Hakko T12 Soldering controller) and it needed a simple way of programming it. The PCB is designed for manufacturing and has no standard header. On the bottom the programming pins are brought out as testpoints:
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Closeup of the rig. Did I ever tell you how much I hate that hotglue? Argh it sticks to everything :/
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Rig in action. It has completed a selftest with success:
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I got the little pogopins from our first geektour to shenzhen ( http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/ ... hen-china/ (http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/04/12/global-geek-tour-sjaaks-score-from-hong-kong-and-shenzhen-china/) )