If you solder female headers to the Thing, plugging a 6-pin row of right-angle male
headers between the FTDI and header helps create a temporary programming interface.
Hardware Assembly
Oh. We’re getting ahead of ourselves. To connect the FTDI programmer to your Thing you’ll
need to solder something to the Thing.
If you’ve never soldered before, this is a great time to start! These solder points are easy,
through-hole pins, check out our How to Solder - Through-hole Soldering for help getting
started.
What, exactly, you solder to the board depends both on how you’ll use it in your project, and
how you’ll interface it with the programmer. When it comes to selecting a header (or wire) to
solder, there are a variety of options. We’ve tried a lot of them with the Thing:
10-pin Stackable Headers make it convenient to both breadboard the Thing and jumper wire
out of it.
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