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How do I easily flip odd and even pins between a Raspberry Pi and Pi hat?

Electrical Engineering Asked by Nick Felker on December 17, 2021

My group built a custom hat for a Pi but when we integrated it we discovered a problem with our implementation.

Our even and odd pins were reversed. On the Pi, the headers are

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2  4  6  ...
1  3  5  ...
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But our board has the pins

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1  3  5  ...
2  4  6  ...
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Our 40-pin headers are surface-mounted on the bottom, so we cannot easily turn it around or put it underneath. We can connect a bunch of jumper wires and the circuit works by flipping the order of pins, but it’d be great if there was an easier workaround.

Is there some kind of thing we could get to do the reversal, or should we just do a revision on the boards?

One Answer

Plug a pin header into the RPi, then use a ribbon cable between the two headers.

That will give you the reversal.

Answered by jsotola on December 17, 2021

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